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41	“Dark-Skinned People Be Like”: How Colorism-Promoting Internet Memes and Audience Feedback Influence African Americans’ Intragroup Attitude and Perception of Skin – Tone Bias Smith, Marisa A. 13 August 2015 (has links) No description available. Communication Memes colorism skin-tone bias social influence social media social networking sites twitter attitude behavioral intention social reality grounding theory intragroup discrimination social cognitive theory
42	The Psycho-Social Impact of Colorism Among African American Women: Crossing the Divide Fultz, Lauren A. January 2014 (has links) No description available. Women's Studies African American Studies African Americans Ethnic Studies Minority and Ethnic Groups Psychology African American women women colorism skin tone discrimination black psychology discrimination racism womens issues racial and ethnic attitudes Blacks
43	The Impact of Colorism on Historically Black Fraternities and Sororities Bryant, Patience Denece 01 January 2013 (has links) This dissertation study was conducted in order to examine and gain an insight on two topics that are considered to be highly under researched: American historically black fraternities and sororities and colorism within the back American community. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact that colorism has had on black American collegiate Greek letter organizations. Using the qualitative phenomenological approach, 18 graduate or alumni members, two from each of the nine historically black Greek letter organizations that make up the National Pan-Hellanic Council were interviewed using open ended questions to see what impact (if any) colorism has had on historically black fraternities and sororities. During the interviews the following five major themes emerged: discriminatory practices between black Americans, stereotyping black Greek letter organizations, stereotyping skin tones, colorism as a part of American history, and colorism as being permanently a part of the black American community. The following theories were also explored during the study: Social Identity Theory, Double Consciousness, Primary Identification Theory, and Conflict Caused by Colorism, to further see what impact colorism had on historically black fraternities and sororities. Through these five themes and theories, it was found that colorism has had and continues to have a significant impact on not only members of historically black fraternities and sororities, but also that of members of the black American community as a whole. Social research African American Studies Black Community Black Greek Letter Organizations Colorism Double Consciousness Fraternity Sorority Higher Education African American Studies Civic and Community Engagement Educational Sociology Inequality and Stratification Race and Ethnicity Social and Behavioral Sciences Sociology Sociology of Culture
44	Bleaching To Reach: Skin Bleaching as a Performance of Embodied Resistance in Jamaican Dancehall Culture Harris, Treviene A 14 January 2014 (has links) This thesis examines how skin bleaching can be understood within the cultural context of Jamaican dancehall. I argue that as a cultural practice, skin bleaching can be viewed as a critique of the concomitant structural inequalities precipitated by colorism, which is a by-product of racism. In proposing skin bleaching as a queer performance of color, I attempt to illustrate the manner in which the lightening of the skin exposes the instability of racism and colorism as socially constructed, discursive regimes. If race and skin color are biological and embodied facts dictated by social reality, then bodies, which are racially marked and colored subjects, can be used to project counter discourses that challenge these specific regimes. The space of discursive limit imposed on the racialized or colored body-subject is a space from which critiques of dominant discourses can be projected, and bleaching does precisely that. I conclude therefore, that skin bleaching is performed resistance which challenges the dominating discourses on race by first destabilizing the notion that skin color is an immutable biological fact, and second by contesting subsequent discourses that are contingent on the “facts” of color and race. English Cultural Studies Skin Bleaching Jamaica Reggae Studies Reggae Dancehall Colorism Queer Postcolonial Colonial Performance Culture Community-Based Research Critical and Cultural Studies Dance Esthetics Ethnomusicology Inequality and Stratification Other English Language and Literature Other International and Area Studies Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Performance Studies Politics and Social Change Social and Cultural Anthropology

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