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Light Skinned Research Paper

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Up Close Skin Perspective Growing up in a small country town I didn’t experience much colorism, but I most definitely had a good idea of what it was. When you have a sister who is light skinned in a house full of dark skinned individuals you tend to figure out exactly how colorism feels. We would see all types of meme’s on social media showing how light-skinned individuals were better than dark skinned individuals, which made my sister feel even more inferior to us. In school people would say me and my sister looked just alike, but she was prettier because she was light-skinned. From experiencing this it made me want to know exactly where this colorism affect came from and why is it such a problem. After discussing my topic with my mother one I came to find that colorism has gotten a lot worse as the years have gone by. After all my research I have come to find that colorism is far worse than racism. Racism still exist, but it is blinder while colorism is showing everywhere. You can see it in school, social media, and just in everyday life. With this information, I saw the colorism as not being such a big deal; because I figured maybe light-skinned individuals have it just as hard as dark-skinned’s. Nevertheless, I also noticed that there are …show more content…

They both discuss colorism from the socioeconomic side. They are similar in the way that they tell about how light-skinned individuals are more privileged in the work force area than dark-skinned individuals. Mark Hill’s article goes into more detail on how the closer you are to white the better chance you have of getting a good job. Margaret Hill talks more about dark-skinned individuals are using skin-bleaching creams to make their self lighter to give their self more

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