Colorism

Body and Soul directed by Oscar Micheaux established stereotypes that african americans faced during the time period. Colorism within the african american community has been a huge struggle that we as society have dealt with for a long time. Micheaux’s “Body and Soul” visually showed the viewers how society viewed the african american community during this time period. Black performers were not as popular in the film industry and only minimal roles were offered to them which were often…

Throughout my life here in America, I’ve made significant efforts in achieving extensive knowledge about my family history. I am a type 1 diabetic, the second child of four, which includes my older sister and my little brothers, the twins and a college student majoring in Psychology as a senior at Austin Peay State University. I am an African American, Army child, living in Clarksville, Tennessee. Since moving here, I have acquired a great deal of knowledge and strengths. This has enabled me to…

Fairness and prettiness are the things that humans naturally like to possess, everyone loves to be beautiful, and enjoy complements for their beauties as well. Traders used this passion and have funded the cosmetic industry, which is among the highest income trades in the world these days. One of the most popular cosmetic products is whitening creams and face washes. These products are being used to lighten dark skins, so that, they look prettier and younger. The companies which produce these…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, an innocent man is convinced of a crime simply because of the color of his skin. Later, he is shot and killed and his death doesn’t even make a ripple in the racist community where he lived. This man was a victim of something called implicit bias. Implicit bias occurs when an individual holds subconscious stereotypes about others who are not the same as them- whether it be race, gender, or age. There are many negative ways to be stereotyped in the world today…

Among African Americans there exists an arrangement of skin tones with varying degrees of light to dark; some shades are considered more acceptable than others. The impact of colorism on the black identity is vast and complicated. Specifically, the black identity expressed in Yellowman illustrates dark-skinned individuals viewing themselves as authentic, hardworking, and strong while viewing their light-skinned counterparts as…

Many authors, such as Morgan Saraya, Thamar Theodore, and Siji Jabbar, recognize the importance of studying the self-perceptions of African American women. They explore the reasons why African American women have low confidence in their appearance. The authors tied this problem to mass media and members within the African American community. Through their efforts, African American women have gained more confidence in themselves since the early 2000s, but the presence of Eurocentric beauty…

Statements that do not concern themselves with context, however, are unconstructive at best and inaccurate at worst; the Caribbean, after all, does not exist in a vacuum, and if one were to treat it as if it did, no good would come out of it. Regarding colorism, that the descendants of the Caribbean populations that had been subject to the vagaries of the European colonial project see white skin and — by extension — whiteness itself as a state of being to aspire towards is neither a novel…

we know that there are far more white folks on welfare than blacks, and yet we still associate welfare with black and lazy. The issue is truly correlated with Colorism. The reason why so many black men have a problem with the likes of Drake and equate light-skinned men with “softness” in general; And in spite of the perception that colorism is only a dark/light girls issue, why Sammy Sosa and Vybz Kartel both bleached their…

Her description of swallowing a leaf is given among the experiences of a miserable cycle from being unable to speak, to making her dad angry because of her impediment, to the beginning feel of pebbles in eyes, to crying and back to the origin of the story. The sentences are very abstract, especially when she says “I was not even really alive.” (Zhang, 2012) Nevertheless, in fact, this poem is related to one of her emotion described in her fiction Other Girls. It is a metaphor reflecting her…

messages, and, the internalizing of these messages by African American women. With a sample group of 31 college level Black women, researchers set up five focus groups to reach saturation in data collected. Using thematic analysis, hair, skin tone/colorism, body shape, and, message sources were identified as three of the most prioritized aspects of beauty and body image for Black women. Findings from the current study suggested African…