Teaching and Learning Guide for: The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality

By M. Hunter. 2008

Subfields: Social Sciences & Humanities

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Citations in the corpus

• “It’s Complicated”: Negotiating Accessibility and (Mis)Representation in Image Descriptions of Race, Gender, and Disability (2021, background): “into colorism [57, 121] and other forms of discrimination, such as cameras capturing lighter skin tones differently.”
• The Deadly Challenges of Raising African American Boys (2016, background): “Kera’s comments echo research suggesting that skin color differences impact African Americans’ experiences in employment, school, and relationships (hunter 2007).”
• The Relationship Between Skin Tone and School Suspension for African Americans (2013, background): “Still, most social scientists researching colorism simply suggest that taking into account variation in skin tone expands the scope in which white racism is seen (Hunter 2007).”