Essays about: "dark skin"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words dark skin.

  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. Evaluating physiological phasic reaction and negative emotions in darkness within a video game setting : Using an EDA analysis and a game experience questionnaire

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Paulina Bonnevier; [2022]
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    Abstract : Background. Electrodermal activity (EDA) is a method to measure variations in the electrical conductivity of the skin, and it is often used to help assess emotions like anxiety, or stress. However, it is not yet commonly used in video games, although emotions are an essential aspect to consider when developing a game. Objectives. READ MORE

  4. 3. Who I Am and Who You See

    University essay from Konstfack/Ädellab

    Author : Teresa Alton Borgelin; [2021]
    Keywords : jewellery; identity; brooch; layers; categorisation; norms; skin; adoption; belonging; craft;

    Abstract : Now and then other people’s comments and/or behaviour reminds me that I look different and that my external features are connected to something beyond my Swedish identity. My black hair, dark brown eyes and my brownish skin color talk about something else. READ MORE

  5. 4. Investigation of vitamin K interaction and transdermal delivery at skin barriers:study using k4 model

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för biomedicinsk vetenskap (BMV)

    Author : Alberta Agyemang; [2021]
    Keywords : vitamin k4; diffusion coefficient; Michaelis-Menten constant;

    Abstract : Vitamin K is a fat soluble compound which is synthesized by the gut microbiota and produced in many tissues within the body. Considering its role in the liver as a cofactor for gamma carboxylase enzymes, treatment of dark circles and pigments under the eye among others. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Stains of Colourism and Shame : An Exploration into Toni Morrison's novel God Help the Child 

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Juliette Thompson; [2020]
    Keywords : self-esteem; racist shaming; colourism; passing; internalised racism and coping mechanisms;

    Abstract : In this essay we will analyse Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child (2015), to show how colourism and racist shaming, an ordeal that began with slavery, has continued to affect the lives of the characters Sweetness and her daughter Bride, two black women living in America. These negative ideologies, which are pervasive in American society, have been internalised and created a low self-esteem in both characters. READ MORE