@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt2tvcds.15, ISBN = {9781578068814}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvcds.15}, abstract = {I thought the irises of all white people’s eyes were sky blue. Where I got this notion, I don’t know. Daddy didn’t tell me. (He rarely talked about white folks at home, although he was involved in the struggle and white people were the cause of our dilemma.) It was certainly not from anyone in school, where I only saw names scratched out at the front of first-grade readers, because, as when Daddy was a child, my class got the raggedy, hand-me-down books. Perhaps in those books the characters Sally, Dick, and Jane had blue eyes; I haven’t seen one}, bookauthor = {Jordana Y. Shakoor}, booktitle = {Civil Rights Childhood}, pages = {158--179}, publisher = {University Press of Mississippi}, title = {The Last Summer}, year = {1999} }