Toni Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye and Nobel Prize winner, is highly respected for the literature she writes. This type of literature is called Recovery Literature, which is defined as an effort on the part of contemporary writers who, in the wake of cultural fragmentation caused by integration, seek to recall aspects of past African American culture when They were contained in small, cohesive communities closely tied to the lands of the rural south. Recovery literature like The Bluest Eye is essential in any learning environment because of the history it represents, but school boards across the country are having these books removed from shelves. There are several instances where concerned parents want to remove Morrison's The Bluest Eye due to its graphic language. Parents of these graphic language challenges want to censor the incestuous rape scene and the language used to describe the sexual actions that occur in the book. In other cases, the book is accused of being anti-white based on two situations in the book where white people are mentioned. Censoring Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye because of its incestuous rape scene, anti-white statements, and graphic language is wrong, as school boards suppress the history of African American culture in the 1940s. One of the main reasons parents want to ban Morrison's The Bluest Eye is for the rape scene. The sad and misunderstood rape of Pecola by her father Cholly is interpreted literally. For example, the Littleton Public School District, LPSD, “removed all copies of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” . . from the shelves of his high school libraries. . . [when] The board's decision to delete the novel. . . was in response to a parent who took issue with its explicit description...... middle of paper ...... Bluest Eye. New York: Bloom's Literary Review, 2010. 97-101. E-book collection (EBSCOhost). Internet. April 16, 2014. “Censorship Summary.” School Library Journal 51.12 (2005): 20. Literary Reference Center. Internet. April 4, 2014. Foerstel, Herbert N. “The Most Frequently Banned or Challenged Books, 1996-2000.” Banned in the United States: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2002. 231-32. E-book collection (EBSCOhost). Internet. April 23, 2014. Hull, Mary. Censorship in America: A Reference Manual. Santa Barbara, CA: np, 1999.Lancto, Craig. “Banned books”. The World and Me 18.9 (2003): 258. MasterFILE Elite. Internet. April 23, 2014. “Maryland schools ban books by Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison.” » Jet January 26, 1998: 12. Middle Search Plus. Internet. April 6, 2014. Morrison, Toni. The bluest eye. New York: vintage, 1970. Print.