Colorism Survey Essay

Through researching colorism and creating a survey the researcher’s goal was to find out if people felt that the education of colorism is important. They also wanted to learn more about people’s experiences with colorism and if they recognize any privilege or disadvantage in different skin tones. Furthermore, the researcher wanted to know how we could, as a community put an end to colorism. In the researcher's survey, the last questions they asked was each person’s sex and race to have some prior background about them, and so they did not base their answers on their race and sex rather than their honest opinions. In the survey, Two of the nine questions were open-ended. The first question the researcher asked was, “Do you think education of …show more content…
The following results were that 54.5% of people have not experienced colorism and 45.5% of people have. The next results found was that 68% of people do recognize that there is a privilege in having a certain skin tone, on the other hand, 27.3% of people in this survey do not recognize any privilege, and 4.5% of people are unsure. Then the researcher found that 95.5% of people feel that light skinned people are treated positively in communities and that dark skinned people are treated negatively. Whereas, 4.5% of people believe that all members of society are equal. In the researcher's first open-ended question, they asked participants to explain their experiences with colorism, and got very honest answers, although they found that a lot of the participants got colorism and racism intertwined. Meaning that some people wrote down racist experiences rather than the colorism experiences that they asked for. A few of the great responses they received were: "you talk white", “you're a pretty girl but, you got some nappy hair”, and “They called me white as a