Review of The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans.

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (10) ◽  
pp. 1127-1127
Author(s):  
Anderson J. Franklin
2005 ◽  
Vol 116 (5) ◽  
pp. 402-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Bonilla ◽  
Lesley-Anne Boxill ◽  
Stacey Ann Mc Donald ◽  
Tyisha Williams ◽  
Nadeje Sylvester ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor W. Hargrove

This study addresses three research questions critical to understanding if and how skin color shapes health among African Americans: (1) Does skin color predict trajectories of body mass index (BMI) among African Americans across ages 32 to 55? (2) To what extent is this relationship contingent on gender? (3) Do sociodemographic, psychosocial, and behavioral factors explain the skin color–BMI relationship? Using data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study and growth curve models, results indicate that dark-skinned women have the highest BMI across adulthood compared to all other skin color–gender groups. BMI differences between dark- and lighter-skinned women remain stable from ages 32 to 55. Among men, a BMI disadvantage emerges and widens between light- and dark-skinned men and their medium-skinned counterparts. Observed sociodemographic characteristics, stressors, and health behaviors do not explain these associations. Overall, findings suggest that skin color– and gender-specific experiences likely play an important role in generating BMI inequality.


2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stevie Watson ◽  
Corliss G. Thornton ◽  
Brian T. Engelland
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2006 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 1415-1427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa N. Borrell ◽  
Catarina I. Kiefe ◽  
David R. Williams ◽  
Ana V. Diez-Roux ◽  
Penny Gordon-Larsen

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 63-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katheryn B. Davis ◽  
Maurice Daniels ◽  
Letha A. Lee See

2021 ◽  
pp. 002214652097964
Author(s):  
Ellis P. Monk

This study uses nationally representative data to extend a steadily growing body of research on the health consequences of skin color by comparatively examining the consequences of perceived ingroup and outgroup skin color discrimination (perceived colorism) for physical health among African Americans. Using a comprehensive set of measures of physical health, I find that perceived ingroup colorism is significantly associated with worse physical health outcomes among African Americans. Notably, the magnitude of ingroup colorism’s associations with most of these outcomes rivals or even exceeds that of major lifetime discrimination, everyday discrimination, and perceived outgroup colorism. These findings compellingly suggest the inclusion of perceived colorism measures in future survey data collection efforts.


Author(s):  
Faeze Rezazade ◽  
Esmaeil Zohdi

Racial prejudice, injustice, and discrimination against people of colored skin, especially African Americans, has become a global issue since the twenty century. Blacks are deprived of their rights regardless of their human natures and are disenfranchised from White’s societies due to their skin color which has put them as inferior and clownish creatures in White’s point of view. Although many anti-racist effort and speeches has done to solve racist issues and eliminate racism and its circumstances, still racism is alive and Blacks are suffering from it. Although, many White individuals accept themselves as anti-racist characters that color of skin does not matter to them, they still show prejudice and discrimination towards Blacks and cannot consider them as equal as themselves. A reason to such Whites’ thought and behavior is that they have faced this issue since their childhood and therefore they cannot change it because this attitude is entangled with their personality and is deeply ingrained in them. Thus, a way to stop and eliminate discrimination, prejudice, and injustice is to train children, the next generation, as anti-racist and color-blind characters. In this regard, it has been tried to investigate the role of children training in the elimination of social and racial discrimination in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (2015), which is sequel novel to her masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). Moreover, Jean Piaget’s theory of Children’s Cognitive Development has been used for a better understanding of this investigation.


2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Choplin ◽  
Midge Wilson ◽  
Lepaul Williams ◽  
Pierangela L. Doriety

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