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SKIN COLOR x AFRICANA STUDIES

Created By: Brianna Baker, Dequandre Manley, Brianna Fugate, Ahmer Robinson, Brandon Pitts, Ivan Conard, Justin Henderson

Introduction:

Examining the Relationship Between Skin Color and Africana Studies

 

colorism:

 

prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically people of the same ethnic group

 

 

 

“…Some view our sable race with a scornful eye,

Their colour is a diabolic die

Remember, Christians, Negros black as Cain,

May be refin’d and join th’ angelic train” (143)

 

Phyllis Wheatley

“ it’s a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others and measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One never feels his two-ness an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” (687)

 

W.E.B. Dubois

Mystery of Inequity - Lauryn Hill
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