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The aim of this unit is to help students see a part of themselves in the works of African-American women and create a connection between themselves and the African-American culture and community. The experience of learning is enhanced through the use of Modern American art, Jazz and contemporary female music, poetry from the 1960's and 1970's, drama, film and various informative pieces of young adult literature. This is a unit that uses Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye as a core text. I want to touch all sides of their nature and personalities so that the literature becomes real for them instead of just another intellectual exercise lying dead on the page. With this unit on African-American women, I want to create a full-bodied experience for the students. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (pages 5-6)Įxcellent literature has the potential to help students understand their own identities, their own failures, their own desires. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how." There is really nothing more to say-except why. What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and the unyielding earth. "Quiet as it's kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941. Searching for a Black Female Identity in a World Without Eyes