Toni Morrison's novel about an African-American family in Ohio in the 1930s and 1940s, The Bluest Eye and Louise Erdrich's novel about the Anishinabe tribe in 1920s North Dakota, Tracks is, in part, about seeing. Both novels examine the effects of a kind of vision refracted through the prism of racism by the subjects of racism themselves. Erdrich's Pauline Puyat and Morrison's Pecola Breedlove are mad about their relationship with racism and themselves suffer from internalized racism that is supported and maintained by the social and cultural structures in which they live. Pauline and Pecola become the embodiment of global illness, social pathologies as they become further and further removed from their bodies. Pecola, pushed to want blue eyes by her observations, that is, those with blue who receive and therefore “deserve” love, ends up losing it. mind after having suffered repeated violence at home, at school and on the street. This violence is all rooted in racism. Pecola begins to believe the lie of racism: being black...