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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Skin color"”.
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COLLEGE STUDENTS’ BELIEFS: ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SKIN COLOR AND ACCEPTANCE
… Biracial or Multiracial individuals regarding skin tone as inclusion criteria for ethnic and cultural inclusion. Additionally, the study examines beliefs about the occurrence rates of anxiety and depression, microaggression experiences, and the prevalence of systemic racism. Not surprisingly, …
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Cultural Homelessness, Self-Esteem, and Skin Color Satisfaction Among Latinxs
… of cultural homelessness, self-esteem, and skin color satisfaction among Latinxs. A close interest was placed in examining responses of participants who identified as racially Black or Afro-Latinx. Through an electronic survey, the study aimed to answer the four research questions: (1) Is …
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De-objectifying bodies : how African American women view their own skin color
… I found that age and a sense of community, not skin color, were the significant predictors of Black women's feelings of attractive. This finding contradicts much conventional knowledge that women's assessment of their own beauty is determined by the existence of particular physical features. The …
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TAN BUT NOT TOO TAN: Understanding Skin Color Amongst Chinese Transnational Adoptees
Studies examining the impact of skin color on women’s lives, specifically Asian American women, have primarily ignored Chinese transnational adoptees. Often, research in this area operates under the assumption that there is knowledge of East Asian culture shaping skin color preference, but for …
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Exploring a Mediational Model of the Relationship Between Skin Color and Mate Selection in Desi Young Adults
<p>Skin color bias is present in South Asia and is especially apparent within the Desi (i.e., South Asian) marriage market, where explicit preferences for fair-skinned marital partners are made and lighter skin is perceived as more attractive. It is also known that, through the halo effect, …
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Exploring how Skin Color and Racial Identity Modify the Relationship between Perceptions of Racism and Psychological Distress among Latinas/os
… impacts the emotional well-being of People of Color. However, this knowledge base has been largely built on data using Black American samples and less on other middle-of-the -spectrum racial groups. Psychological research has also shifted its focus to examine what underlying mechanisms help …
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Skin Color and Social Practice: The Problem of Race and Class Among New Orleans Creoles and Across the South, 1718-1862
… uncover the story of the New Orleans Creoles of color—the mixed-race, francophone middle class of New Orleans and the surrounding area before the Civil War. It shows how the people who became the New Orleans Creoles of color worked endlessly, over three colonial and territorial regimes and nearly …
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Mental Health Service Use Disparities Among Latinx Communities: An Intersectional Examination of The Role of Skin Color, Acculturative Stress, Racial Discrimination, And Mental Health Literacy
… hierarchical regression to examine the impact of skin color, acculturative stress, mental health literacy, and experiences of racial discrimination on the lifetime use of mental health services through an intersectional lens. More specifically, the current study examined the Latinx ethnic …
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Cues of Colorism: The Psychological, Sociocultural, and Developmental Differences between Light-skinned and Dark-skinned African-Americans
<p>Skin color biases, henceforth referred to as colorism, are the biased judgments, attitudes and behaviors toward an individual based on the lightness or darkness of their skin. Available research on the topic has examined a select group of variables, such as mate selection, self-esteem and …
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Implicit And Explicit Racial Attitudes: Moderation Of Racial Typicality Evaluations
… additive and interactive influences of skin tone and facial physiognomy on racial typicality evaluations, as well as the degree to which those effects were moderated by explicit and implicit racial attitudes, ethnicity of participants, and availability of cognitive resources. Using a …
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Multidimensional ethno-racial status in Latin American contexts of mestizaje
… in Guatemala. I examine the association between skin color and ethnic self-identification, and differences by ethno-racial characteristics in the perception of skin color discrimination, and in the desire for a whiter skin color. I find evidence of a direct association between skin color and …
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Is fair lovely?: A cross-cultural comparison of the impact of colorism on mental health in South Asian women
Colorism, a preference for lighter skin tones within and between racial or ethnic groups, impacts many non-White communities, especially those with a history of colonization (Rondilla & Spickard, 2007). I aimed to extend upon perceptions of colorism by exploring the intensity and frequency of …
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3D hand tracking.
… (of hand). This thesis proposes a region-based skin color detection technique, a model-based and an appearance-based 3D hand tracking techniques to bring the human-computer interaction applications one step closer. All techniques are briefly described below. Skin color provides a powerful cue …
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Mestizaje Ideology as Color-Blind Racism: Students' discourses of colorism and racism in Mexico
… on inequity and its maintenance through colorism in</p> <p>Mexico. The largest percent of the population is a mixture of indigenous and Spanish</p> <p>descent. This is where racism via colorism occurs. Considered only as one group,</p> <p>mestizos of a lighter skin color have more …
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Forensic DNA phenotyping and massive parallel sequencing
… all-in-one combined prediction of eye, hair, and skin color from DNA. The skin color prediction model uses 36 variants that were recently proposed for the accurate prediction of categorical skin color on a global scale, and the system is completed by the developmental validation of a 17-plex …
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"Ocular Proof": Race, Religion, and Gender in The Merchant of Venice and Othello
… categories in England - focusing on religion and skin color as primary modes of demarcation interwoven with other prevalent categories of language, ancestry/blood, nationality, and gender - as illuminated in William Shakespeare's <em>The Merchant of Venice </em>and<em> Othello</em>. Religion and …
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SKIN HYDRATION, INJURY PREVALENCE AND FREQUENCY: UNDERSTANDING THE INFLUENCE OF PHYSIOLOGIC, BEHAVIORAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS
Skin is the largest and most visible organ of the body. It is the direct interface between the external and internal environment. The skin has compensatory mechanisms to sustain its functions, but external threats may make it susceptible to injury. Although increasing evidence describes the …
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Aesthetic detail in the works of Nella Larsen
… Female body parts, women's clothing, and skin color are particularly reiterated and fetishized. These evocative descriptions function symbolically and at times act as a counternarrative. Larsen's attempts to create a personal aesthetic are sometimes undercut by the text's alliance with …
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Black honor: belonging and the construction of identity among the writers of O Clarim d'Alvorada
… important signs of prestige was (and still is) skin color. In the city of São Paulo black skin color was such a negative signifier that it prevented many educated black people from advancing socially. As a result, many blacks in São Paulo formed organizations that sought to articulate and …
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