Essays about: "Skin Color Bias"

Found 3 essays containing the words Skin Color Bias.

  1. 1. The "Black Butterflies": Color in God Help the Child and the Inverted White Gaze

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Claudia Bern; [2023]
    Keywords : Chromatism; Dark Beauty; Ebony-Black Beauty; White Beauty; Black Skin; Blue-Black Skin; Afro-textured Hair; Black Color; White Mask; Slavery; Race Prejudice; Black Identity; Toni Morrison; God Help the Child; Africanist in Literature; Black Beauty in Media; Whiteness; Inverted White Gaze; White Gaze; Black Gaze.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The discourse on beauty has primarily been focused on the white gaze to prescribe its normative standards. The white gaze conceptualizes the way in which beauty is dwelled on within society: the foisting of Caucasian-looking beauty canons on black women, and the veneration of whiteness as superior. READ MORE

  3. 2. Name changers’ experience in the Swedish labor market

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sayed Shahabuddin Ahmadyar; [2022-04-08]
    Keywords : Afghan name changers; Labor market discrimination; Swedish-sounding names; Us and Them;

    Abstract : Ethnicity, race, name, and several other factors can determine whether an individual enter the labor market or not. Ethnic minorities and immigrants are discriminated in employment process and therefore immigrants in some Western countries change their names to Western-sounding names in order to tackle labor market discrimination. READ MORE

  4. 3. Colorism in Zanzibar - A Qualitative Field Study on The Effects of Colorism on Women's Identity and Ethnicity Construction

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Feven Tekie; [2020]
    Keywords : Colorism; Zanzibar; Tanzania; Identity; Ethnicity; Skin Color Bias; Internalized Racism; Identity Process Theory;

    Abstract : This paper is a by-product of a minor field study conducted in Zanzibar, Tanzaniaduring eight consecutive weeks in early 2019. The purpose of the study was to examinehow colorism affects women’s identity and ethnicity construction through the researchquestions; how do women in Zanzibar experience colorism in their daily lives and; howdoes colorism affect their self-perception? The data was collected through seven semi-structured interviews with women in Zanzibar and observations. READ MORE