EPISODE · Aug 25, 2022 · 1H 21M
Colorism
from Garage Conversations with Char · host Lauren Camper, Charlene Brisbane, Charisse Green, Shelby Brisbane
References Colorism: Investigating a Global Phenomenon (with Implications for Research, Policy and Practice) by Kamilah Marie Woodson Some Fictional References: The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett, Cane River by Lalita Tademy Lauren’s Instagram: MBM_Noir Lauren's Etsy Business: Shop MBM Noir Health and Social Work Article by J. Camille Hall: “No Longer Invisible: Understanding the Psychosocial Impact of Skin Color Stratification in the Lives of African American Women” The Lip Bar Parade Good American The Colors of Us
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Definition of Colorism according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary is as follows: Definition of colorism : prejudice or discrimination especially within a racial or ethnic group favoring people with lighter skin over those with darker skin Under this system of colorism—the system which prevailed in my childhood in Jamaica, and which has carried over to the present—rarely will dark and light people co-mingle. Rarely will they achieve between themselves an intimacy informed with identity. — Michelle Cliff What writer Alice Walker defined as colorism, the preferential or prejudicial treatment of same-race people based on skin color, continues to this day. And as she once wrote, unless we exorcise it "we cannot as a people progress. For colorism, like colonialism, sexism and racism, impedes us." — Itabari Njeri What do you think...
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