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=The Ideal America=

"Levittown, Pennsylvania" (1958) Retrieved from, http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2006/07/index.html

[|"a date with your family"] media type="youtube" key="Kxo6I8nIIao" Shirley Temple, Retrieved from [|http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/CLASS/130-127~Shirley-Temple-Posters.jpg]

"All the world had agreed that a blue eyed, yellow-haired, pink skinny doll was what every girl child treasured" (Morrison, p. 20).

"A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes" (Morrison, p. 174).

"I thought about the baby that everybody wanted dead, and saw it very clearly. It was in a dark, wet place, its head covered with great O's of wool, the black face holding, like nickels, two clean black eyes, the flared nose, kissing-thick lips, and the living, breathing silk of black skin. No synthetic yellow bangs syspended over marble-blue eyes, no pinshed nose and bowline mouth. More strongly than my fondness for Pecola, I felt a need for someone to want the black baby to live--just to counteract the universal love of white baby dolls, Shirley Temples, and Maureen Peals" (Mossison, p. 190).

"Pretty Woman" (1940-1943) by Norman Rockwell, Retrieved from http://giam.typepad.com/100_years_of_illustration/2004/12/norman_rockwell_2.html