Author: Jose Antonio Vargas / Source: Big Think
- These books, from authors like Toni Morrison and John F. Kennedy, open up a whole new perspective on the American landscape.
- Read Jose Antonio Vargas’ groundbreaking essay on life as an undocumented migrant in The New York Times Magazine.
Growing up, no book stimulated me more than Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. I was first assigned to read the book in eighth grade and the “why” of the story haunted me.
Why was Pecola wishing for blue eyes when she had black ones? Who told her to want blue eyes? Why did she believe them? To this day, I come back to Pecola’s story again and again to unlock whatever meaning I can find.
Reading Toni Morrison and other black writers in childhood challenged me to question and find my place in America; it created a space for…
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