Cameleon Interview

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The first genre that I decided to include in my multi-genre project was an interview. The reason for this is because it would allow the audience, in this case Mr. Gilmer to have a better understanding of my knowledge on colorism in regards to Blacks. The reason for why I named the interview Cameleon is because it goes well with the idea of people accommodate their looks to correlate with their environment. In the interview,I first decided to describe my definition of colorism and state how it relates to the Mexican culture since at the beginning of the year I only knew how colorism affects latinos and hispanic. Later in the interview, I wrote of the connection that I thought Blacks had with colorism and to what level they were affected by it. This part would demonstrate what I initially thought Blacks felt with regards to their skin tone. …show more content…
I then drew the Black women facing down to show the shame she has for her appearance which was the first concept I learn of Blacks in relation to colorism. To demonstrate an example of this, I drew another woman with straight silky hair and better clothing whom seems more happy and self-confident. The destruction of beauty theme is presented in the announcement of the spa’s name saying that a jewel is better than a stone when something valuable like a diamond is consider both a stone or jewel and a stone is usually seem like the type of rocks you see on sidewalks. This is meant to show that both races, Black and White are beautiful and that our own beauty in this case Black’s own beauty is being wreck for someone else who has the same worth as

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