Both Toni Morrison's novel about an African-American family in Ohio in the 1930s and '40s, The Bluest Eye and Louise Erdrich's novel about the Anishinabe tribe in the '20 in North Dakota, The tracks are, in part, about seeing. Both novels examine the effects of a type of vision refracted through the lens 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 suffer from internalized racism themselves that is supported and maintained by the social and cultural structures in which they live. Pauline and Pecola become the embodiment of the world's disease, of social pathologies as they become more and more alienated from their bodies. Pecola, driven to desire blue eyes by her observations, that is, those who have blue they receive and therefore "deserve" love, ultimately loses it. lies after having suffered repeated violence at home, at school and on the street. These violences are all rooted in racism. Pecola begins to believe the lie of racism: that of being black...