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Week 3: "Article evaluation"

I am evaluating the Wikipedia article: Colorism in the Caribbean. Much of what is written in the article is related to the topic, but can be further elaborated on, better analyzed, and/or brought back to the main topic in a more direct, clear way. The article appears to be neutral, and has no strong leanings in one direction or another. The author writes about skin-bleaching, and in this section they bring in the viewpoint of those who choose to continue to skin-bleach, but not those who refuse to do so. This should be change and the viewpoints presented should be many, and well organized. There are many citations that work when you click on them. The majority are academic papers and films. At one point the author writes about "#Unfairandlovely", a social movement against skin-bleaching products like Fair and Lovely, from which the name is derived. One of their sources comes from a popular-news magazine that, although talks about the movement, does so lightly and is not a typically credible source. Furthermore, it and does not provide the statement that it is credited for. The article is a few years old and should be updated.

On the Talk page, someone pointed out that in a prior version of the page, the writer came off as biased. The writer wrote back and said that they made adjustments to resolve this issue. It turns out that this page was made through the Wiki Education Foundation.

This page can be related back to my how racism is pervasive and can create aggression within ethnic groups as well as between. It also supports our conversations on institutional racism, and how institutions may tolerate racist products or practices.

Week 4: Group sandbox-- <User:Dcvallad

Week 5:

Outline for group article "Colorism and the Anti-Blackness that comes with it"

→Introduction

→ →What is "colorism"? How are we defining it for the sake of this article?

→ →What is the demographic range that we will be focusing on? (We will focus on colorism in the U.S., and its existence in major census "race"groups.)

→ →What is a person of color, for our purpose here. (A person who is visibly not ethnically caucasian)

→Brief history of colorism.

→ →Colonialism and Colorism

→ → →In the Caribbean, white people colonized the island, forced Africans into slavery, and made themselves the higher social and economic class in this society. "Mulatto" peoples received more preference in this society than their darker counterparts. Thus--a coloristic preference for lighter skin tones; the lighter you are, the more you can succeed in a racist society.

→ →Classism and Colorism?

→ → →European Imperialism in Asia has resulted in trends like surgically doubling your eyelids. If I remember this correctly, in some cultures of East Asia the coloristic preference for lighter skin started with the way someone who works in the field will tan into a darker shade, and so dark of tanned skin was connected to a lower economic class. I've personally known friends who've come from nations that have not been colonized, but hold onto this way of thinking. The coloristic result is the same, but (possibly) comes from a different origin-story from European-colonized nations.

→Colorism as it is represented in U.S. ethnic/demographic groups

→ →Latinx Colorism

→ → →Latinx soap operas and representation. "Mejor la raza." Standards of beauty are anti-Black (in addition to skin color, look of eyebrows, nose, lips, etc. is also labeles as not beautiful).

→ →Asian Colorism

→ → →The L.A. riots and Asian-Black relations? Maybe relates to colorism?

→ →Black Colorism

→ → →Light skin vs. Dark skin and media representation.

→ →White Colorism

→ → →Duh. White people getting tans.

→ →Native Peoples

→ →Mulicultural

→ →Pacific Islander

→Conclusion

→→How this all ties into current events

→→How colorism is perpetuated in today's society and intra-ethnic communities.

→→Recent takes on colorism in anthropology and media.