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Roye, Susmita. "Toni Morrison's Disrupted Girls and Their Disturbed Girlhoods: The Bluest Eye and A Mercy". Callaloo 35.1 (2012): 227, 309. JSTOR41412505.
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Zebialowicz, Anna, and Marek Palasinski. "Probing Racial Dilemmas in 'the Bluest Eye' with the Spyglass of Psychology". Journal of African American Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 2010, pp. 220–233. JSTOR41819247.
Alexander, Allen (1998). "The Fourth Face: The Image of God in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye". African American Review. 32 (2): 293–303. doi:10.2307/3042126. JSTOR3042126.
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Bump, Jerome (2010). "Racism and Appearance in The Bluest Eye: A Template for an Ethical Emotive Criticism". College Literature. 37 (2): 147–170. doi:10.1353/lit.0.0108. JSTOR20749587. S2CID144016754.
Hughes-Hassell, Sandra (July 2013). "Multicultural Young Adult Literature as a Form of Counter-Storytelling". The Library Quarterly. 83 (3): 212–228. doi:10.1086/670696. ISSN0024-2519. S2CID146404942.
Anne T. Salvatore (2002). "Toni Morrison's New Bildungsromane: Paired Characters and Antithetical Form in The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Beloved". Journal of Narrative Theory. 32 (2): 154–178. doi:10.1353/jnt.2011.0040. ISSN1548-9248. S2CID162093519.
American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (March 26, 2013). "Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009". Banned & Challenged Books. Archived from the original on November 2, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2018.
American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (March 26, 2013). "Top 10 Most Challenged Books Lists". Banned & Challenged Books. Archived from the original on July 24, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (March 26, 2013). "100 most frequently challenged books: 1990–1999". Banned & Challenged Books. Archived from the original on March 5, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
Finan, Chris; Bertin, Joan; Joy Levy, Ricci (February 6, 2007). "Award-Winning Books Challenged in Michigan School". The National Coalition Against Censorship. Archived from the original on December 1, 2016. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
Casey, Hans (March 16, 2007). "Feds: Books don't violate laws". Ann Arbor News. p. A3. Archived from the original on May 1, 2023. Retrieved November 15, 2007 – via Access World News.
Casey, Hans (February 16, 2007). "Group wants 3 books banned". Ann Arbor News. p. A1. Archived from the original on May 1, 2023. Retrieved November 15, 2016 – via Access World News.
Hoffman, Sarah (April 13, 2016). "The Bluest Eye Stays in Michigan". National Coalition Against Censorship. Archived from the original on December 1, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
Jan., Furman (1996). Toni Morrison's fiction (Revised and expanded ed.). Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. pp. 12–33. ISBN9781611173673. OCLC880959117.
Khayati, Abdellatif (1999). "Representation, Race, and the 'Language' of the Ineffable in Toni Morrison's Narrative". African American Review. 33 (2): 313–324. doi:10.2307/2901281. ISSN1062-4783. JSTOR2901281.
Hughes-Hassell, Sandra (July 2013). "Multicultural Young Adult Literature as a Form of Counter-Storytelling". The Library Quarterly. 83 (3): 212–228. doi:10.1086/670696. ISSN0024-2519. S2CID146404942.
Anne T. Salvatore (2002). "Toni Morrison's New Bildungsromane: Paired Characters and Antithetical Form in The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Beloved". Journal of Narrative Theory. 32 (2): 154–178. doi:10.1353/jnt.2011.0040. ISSN1548-9248. S2CID162093519.