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
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Color Complex

The 8818G allele of the agouti signaling protein (ASIP) gene is ancestral and is associated with darker skin color in African Americans

2005 ◽  
Vol 116 (5) ◽  
pp. 402-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Bonilla ◽  
Lesley-Anne Boxill ◽  
Stacey Ann Mc Donald ◽  
Tyisha Williams ◽  
Nadeje Sylvester ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Signaling Protein

scholarly journals BMI Trajectories in Adulthood: The Intersection of Skin Color, Gender, and Age among African Americans

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor W. Hargrove
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Growth Curve Models ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Bmi Trajectories ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Gender Groups ◽  
Gender Specific

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.

Skin color shades in advertising to ethnic audiences: The case of African Americans

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stevie Watson ◽  
Corliss G. Thornton ◽  
Brian T. Engelland
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Skin Color

scholarly journals Self-reported health, perceived racial discrimination, and skin color in African Americans in the CARDIA study

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
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Reported Health ◽  
Perceived Racial Discrimination

The Psychological Effects of Skin Color on African Americans' Self-Esteem

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 63-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katheryn B. Davis ◽  
Maurice Daniels ◽  
Letha A. Lee See
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Psychological Effects

Colorism and Physical Health: Evidence from a National Survey

2021 ◽  
pp. 002214652097964
Author(s):  
Ellis P. Monk
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Color Discrimination ◽  
Physical Health Outcomes ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Everyday Discrimination

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.

scholarly journals The Influence of Childhood Training on the Adulthood Rejection of Discrimination in Go Set a Watchman

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Faeze Rezazade ◽  
Esmaeil Zohdi
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
And Behavior

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.

Social Comparison-Induced Distortions Among African Americans Judgments of Skin Color Tones

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Choplin ◽  
Midge Wilson ◽  
Lepaul Williams ◽  
Pierangela L. Doriety
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Skin Color
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