Colorism

According to chapter 11 in the Human behavior in the Macro Social Environment, A Neighborhood is a geographic area within a bigger community where residents “ share certain characteristics ,value ,mutual interest ,or styles of living . Neighborhood create communities there are different races, religious group, and lifestyles who live in them . As it relates to social class for instinct In the Washington D.C area the poorest neighborhoods have the most visible drug problems ward 7 and 8…

The portrayal of black women has evolved greatly over time. From Oliva Pope in Scandal to Annalise in How to Get Away with Murder, black women are on-screen professionals now more than ever. Although black women are seen dealing with issues in their stories’ plot, the great majority of these plots take a back seat to the subplot of romance. The success of black women in media is relentlessly measured by their love life. Regardless of the success of their financial, employment, or platonic…

During the semester we have read several text from “Harlem Renaissance” such as the “Returning Solider” by W. E. B. Du Bois is one of the text, that I will talk about on this essay. More on this paper will specifically focus on to inform college students as audience. W. E. B. Du BOIS’s “Returning Soldiers” is about African American soldiers coming back from war to America. These soldiers were recruited in large number in military to help France against Germany at that time. The core point of the…

create an environment where people become hyper aware of skin color to the point where there are hierarchies of skin among skin colours because ignoring it does not allow children or adults to learn about race in a healthy way. In the article “What’s ‘Colorism’?” by David Knight, he discusses how he “witnessed high school students identify, categorize and stereotype their peers based on skin tone.” (Knight, 2015, p.46)…