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    What most people might not know is that there are two levels of racism and that is race and color. Colorism is a form of discrimination in which light skins have a higher privilege than dark skins‚ Even though they may be a part of the same race or ethnicity. According to a study done by Margaret Hunter‚ Light-skinned people earn more money‚ complete more years of schooling‚ live in better neighborhoods‚ and marry higher-status people than darker-skinned people of the same race or ethnicity. Most

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    This academic journal by Margaret Hunter focuses on Colorism in the Classroom and the social methods in schools that generate color founded discrimination. Furthermore‚ Hunter also lists the several ways that color founded discrimination affects the educational routes of African Americans and Hispanics. One of these was is skin-color bias‚ Skin-color bias has an impact in several different parts of the school system such as the interactions between teachers‚ students and families. While Skin-color

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    There are many people in society today that think the same way that Atticus Finch does about Tom Robinson‚ a black male accused of raping a white woman‚ in Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Atticus believed that although Robinson was African American‚ he deserved a fair trial and not to be killed‚ despite what the other white people were saying in the town. Atticus thought that Tom had just as many rights as the Caucasian people. The towns’ people felt as though Tom was beneath them and

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    Refusal to acknowledge these issues faced by minorities‚ is choosing to remain complacent as people of color suffer before you. People of color are challenged with an issue called colorism‚ a more toxic form of racism. Colorism is the belief that a dark skin tone is more malevolent than a lighter skin tone.The silencing of African American outcry as complaining is racism itself. Through mass incarceration‚ redistricting and increasing mortality rate African

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    being devalued and disregarded. Colorism is the prejudice or discrimination based on the relative lightness or darkness of the skin. The documentary takes a look into the trend of black women all over the world investing in the multibillion dollar business of skin bleaching creams. Duke and Berry also examine how black women are trying to look more Caucasian‚ while white women are trying to look more ethnic by using tanning booths and botoxing their lips. Colorism appears to be more of an issue within

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    *What are the formal properties of art? Color lines contract texture composition Relief sculpture: a type of sculpture in which forms project from a background surface. Why Piet Mondrian take this seriously‚ Vandoesberg not? M is trying to represent the dynamic balance between a opposing natural forces by using horizontal and vertical lines. He is serious because Van has fundamentally different idea about representing his balance. Feature: balance of vertical and horizontal lines‚ structured‚ controlling

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    fairly however black girls would get tripped on the halls‚ and teachers won’t pay attention to them like Pecola but in Maureen’s case it’s different. This reveals the power of colorism that people believe that being lighter is an advantage over darker people since it began with the whites whom believe they are superior. Colorism is an issue within one’s race‚ the discrimination within a minority group discriminating darker skin people. It’s unfair Maureen gets fair treatment than Pecola who is just

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    Analysis of “Shades of Prejudice” by Shankar Vedantam. Shankar Vendamant a science reporter for The Washington Post and the author of the book “The Hidden Brain”. He analyze how still individuals in the United States are judging by the skin color‚ rather than by their character or their achievements or stories in life. He added also how this issue affect or determine‚ who gets the job in everyday life situation‚ who gets sentence in a criminal case‚ and who gets elected in politics view. It’s

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    against. Shankar Vedantam‚ in his essay Shades of Prejudice‚ tells us of a more insidious form of prejudices‚ one that infects not only our country‚ but great parts of the world; a strong bias against darker skin tones‚ which he calls colorism. Vedantam defines colorism as “an unconscious prejudice that isn’t focused on a single group like blacks so much as on blackness itself” (190). He claims that this form of prejudice is not limited to how other races perceive a person; an individual’s skin tone

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    time‚ things have gotten better‚ but racism is still prominent in America’s society. Racism is a part of everyday life‚ and many individuals do not even realize it. There is racism in the work‚ school‚ and even friend environment. Subtle racism‚ colorism‚ and internalized racism occurs every day‚ and often times it remains unnoticed. There are a lot of individuals that argue that racism is no longer as serious in America as it was in previous years. This argument may be true‚ but only because

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