Double Dutching in My Own Skin: A Soulful Narrative on Colorism

ISBN-13: 9781636673097 / Angielski

Shirley R. Steinberg; Lawanda M. Simpkins

Opis

The glamorized life of Black women with light skin and its presumed likeness to whiteness has caused division within the Black community for years. Most often written and spoken of is the victimization of darker hue women due to their skin tone.

Recenzje

In Double Dutching In My Own Skin: A Soulful Narrative on Colorism, Dr. LaWanda Simpkins takes us on a powerful, storied journey through her lived experience as a light-skinned Black woman. From her lens - one often considered one of color privilege - she asks the important question, "Can a person be privileged for the same identity that they are oppressed for?" and gets our heads spinning in search of the answer. This thought-provoking autoethnographic exploration is empowering, sincere, brilliant, and a necessary contribution to the Colorism lexicon. -Dawn N. Hicks Tafari, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education, Winston-Salem State University Author of "Whose World is This?": A Composite Counterstory of Black Male Elementary School Teachers as Hip-Hop Otherfathers

Spis treści

I. JUMP IN - DOWN WITH FRAGILE ROCK: FRECKLES, RED HAIR,

AND STONES

Where it all started

Doing the Work

Goals

II. JUMP OUT- THERE'S NOBODY NEW UNDER THE SUN

Race

Biological Origins

Time Over view

Critical Race Theory

Racism

Internalized Racism

Colorism

Early stages of Colorism

Passing

Too Light - Too Dark

Which Black is Beautiful

Family

Conclusion

III. JUMP IN- SKIN TONE AND ATTITUDE: COLOR STRATIFICATION

AMONGST BLACK ACTRESSES

Film Industry

Mammy, Sapphire, Jezebel

Mammy

Sapphire

Jezebel

Trinary Thinking

Stereotypes and Reality

School Daze

IV. LIGHT-SKIN, NATURAL HAIR, I DO CARE: JOURNALING

THROUGH FEELINGS ON COLORISM

Wanting to Be Like Mommy

Why Would I do This To my Kids?

Not Wanting to be an AKA

Even Tanning Can't Take the Pain Away

Proving my Blackness

She is a REAL Sistah

They Like Him Better

Hash Tag- Team Light-skin

V. JUMP IN- YOU CAN'T STAY IN THE PAST SO HOW DO WE MOVE

FORWARD: EDUCATION AS A FORM OF LIBERATION

My Muse

Liberation through Education

Culturally Relevant Classrooms

Media Responsibility

Intergroup Dialogue

Critical Hope

BIBLIOGRAPHY

O autorze

LaWanda M. Simpkins, Ph.D. is an independent scholar and founder of Creative Justice, Inc., a non-profit organization centered on social justice and advocacy. She received her Ph.D. and certificate in Women's & Gender Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a proud alumna of North Carolina A&T State University.