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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"colorism"”.
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Circuits of race: Consumption of colorism in Nivea’s “Natural Fairness”campaign
<p>Colorism is not a Black-White or dark issue; it is a global issue that has emerged into a dynamical power force dividing people from people and, in turn, people from self. It is not solely subjected as a battled issue in America, but it is a global phenomenon where support is gained from all …
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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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Family matters: The influence of parental racial-ethnic socialization on the adoption of colorism
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Whiteness as currency: colorism in contemporary fiction of the Anglophone Caribbean and the Cape
… ways of being in favour of foreign ideals. Colorism, which is discrimination based on skin tone, plays a significant role in determining the success of attempts at assimilation because of the long history of preferential treatment associated with light skin throughout slavery and colonialism …
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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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Perceptions of colorism within the K-12 learning environment as evidenced by educator response and student narrative
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Colorism and Local Policing: Setting the Foundation for More Expansive Research on Racial Discrimination at the Local Level
… dissertation consists of three articles about colorism and its relevance to public administration (PA), with specific focus on local policing. The overarching arguments are: 1) our lack of focus on the nuanced factors related to race have hindered our ability to adequately respond to biased …
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The BlackGIRL Project: Examining the Impact and Manifestation of Colorism among Black Adolescent Girls in the United States: A Critical Participatory Action Research Approach
<p>Colorism is a skin tone stratification system that privileges lighter-skinned people over their darker-skinned counterparts. Although colorism remains surprisingly understudied, it has been linked to a variety of negative mental health and social outcomes. Colorism particularly impacts Black …
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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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Negative Social Perceptions and their Impacts on the Maya People
… Furthermore, the majority of literature on colorism that is available in English is focused on the impact of colorism on mental health and poverty levels, mostly for Afro-Latinos (preferably referred to as afrodescendientes), while not addressing Indigenous groups. This project examines the …
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The fog of anti-Blackness: Colorism’s lifelong impact on Black females and its implications for educators
… stratification has not been thoroughly studied. Colorism, the preferential treatment based on skin tone is a systemic societal problem that occurs interculturally and intraculturally and has impacted the lives of many Black women within America and globally. This narrative study examined how …
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Cross-group friendships and skin tone perceptions
… in the context of skin tone perceptions. Colorism has had an historical and pervasive impact on individuals categorized as racial/ethnic minorities. This study attempted to bridge the gaps in research directed at interventions for reducing and eliminating the antecedents of colorism by …
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[W]hole: Journey to Fullness
… also highlights the intersectionality of colorism and racism. I use materials such as cardboard rectangles with handwritten words, brown paper, doors defaced by scratches, fire, printed images, newspaper, and projected photographs to ask and answer those questions. I also use Work and …
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A Qualitative Examination of the Maternal Racial Socialization of African American Preschool Children
… process, (b) how mothers' perceptions of colorism influenced the content of messages, and (c) mothers' perceptions of external forces that influenced their children's racial socialization experiences. I applied an integrated Black feminist-child development theoretical framework and …
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COLLEGE STUDENTS’ BELIEFS: ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SKIN COLOR AND ACCEPTANCE
… multiracial, anxiety, depression, passing, colorism, microaggressions, systemic racism, colorism, hypodescent, cultural acceptance questionnaire (CAQ).
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Multiracial Individuals, Gender Dynamics, And Dating
… the theoretical frames of intersectionality and colorism, I demonstrate how race and gender are intersecting power dynamics that influence multiracial experiences when it comes to dating.</p>
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Prototypicality and Ingroup Perceptions: The Role of Identity Denial
… of prototypicality and the existence of colorism. The present work also explores identity denial as a possible mediator of the relationship between target prototypicality and negative social consequences. Especially, when presented with lighter-skin or darker-skin targets, Hispanic/Latinx …
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Self-Representation of Black Queer Athletes in the WNBA: Resistance to Misogynoir and Heteronormativity in Women's Basketball
… in response to continuous misogynoir, colorism, and heteronormativity that pervades sports and sports media. Specifically, this work highlights how WNBA players craft a counter-discourse about themselves, their media representations, and their treatment through their use of social …
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How has Western detective fiction represented and othered marginalized groups such as Asians, women and people with disabilities, how does that fiction relate to Indian detective fiction, and how might that dynamic be subverted through my experimental creative work, Sounds & Shadows: Casebook of the Blind PI?
… Chapter 1 introduces the concepts of colorism, gender and disability. Chapter 2 summarizes how Western detective fiction, since its inception with the publication of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841, has demonized, exoticized, and ‘othered’ people of color, …
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A Narrative Analysis of Desegregation at Spencer High School In Columbus, GA
… the cultural theme of a lack of accessibility, colorism, and the power of the messages within the music in church. The extrapolation of these findings was important because they encapsulated all of the participants' anecdotal material about segregation and desegregation. The most salient finding …
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