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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Colourism"”.
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Bollywood and Colourism: Exploring the discourse of Blackness in Hindustani cinema
… research paper maps the historical background of Colourism in Hindustani cinema which is rooted in Casteism, it also documents and analyses the use of the colour line in the representation of vice and virtue. Eventually, it looks into casting patterns of Hindi film directors with skin colour as a …
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Understanding skin colour: Exploring colourism and its articulation among black and coloured students
… scholars have increasingly drawn attention to colourism as a social phenomenon, South Africa has yet to understand its various expressions in the wake of a history of apartheid. Colourism can be described as "prejudicial treatment of individuals based on varying degrees of skin colour." This …
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Race, Gender, and Beauty in Late Colonial India c.1900-1950.
… and advertising without adequately historicising colourism. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this thesis brings socio-cultural experiences, vernacular material cultures and textual production, and intellectual histories of race and caste, into conversation with one another to argue that …
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Examining "colour" as a ground of prohibited discrimination in international human rights law with specific reference to the "intra-racial" colourism against persons with albinism in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
… a form of discrimination known as “intra-racial” colourism and demonstrates that “race” and “colour” are at times distinct from each other. Hence, Article 1(1) of ICERD allows such discrimination, which violates a plethora of rights including the right to life, to perpetuate with impunity. …
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An Exploration of Meaning-Making and Engagement with Multimodal Texts Involving 14-15-Year-Old Students in a Virtual Reading Group
… mainstream St Lucian conceptualisation of colourism and provided expanded perspectives on other themes. In constructing meaning, students analysed the author's depiction of minorities in illustrations within texts they encountered for the first time. The findings highlight the need for …
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The oppositional gaze: contemporary image-making practice and the implications of skin colour ideals
… and beauty value judgments, has been named as colourism. The body of practice based work, produced as an intrinsic part of the thesis, will attempt to develop and explore this issue and develop a particularly black aesthetic response to the cultural construct of the ‘feminine’. Through …
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Perceptions of dark-skinned beauty on social media using social identity theory : the case of #melaninmagic on Instagram
Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirement of the degree Master in Journalism, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2022.