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Article: Skin color bias: a new perspective on an old problem.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Racism remains a social problem in the United States (Banton, 1992; Muir, 1993). Scholars study its implications in the Black/White context and trace the origin of societal pathologies to its existence (Beckett, 1983; Boyle, 1970; Codina & Montalvo, 1992). However, insight may be gained by ignoring the supremacy model and addressing the issue of bias among people of color.
The manifestation of skin-color bias among people of color is pervasive. In Nicaragua, color influences how ordinary people interact. Mestizos (the racially mixed majority) refer to the darker skinned Costenos (persons of African descent) in denigrating language (Lancaster, 1991). In Cuba, bias has ...