Question 1

What is colorism? How does colorism differ from racism?

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Question 2

Define skin-color stratification. Use a concrete example to illustrate how colorism is linked to skin-color stratification.

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Question 3

Identify three empirical indicators of skin-color stratification in the United States.

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Question 4

Compare and contrast how the racial classification systems in Brazil, Latin America, and the United States shape each region's system of skin-color stratification.

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Question 5

Identify two ways in which colorism is gendered.

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Question 6

Identify three indicators that colorism continues to shape the lives of African Americans.

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Question 7

Research has found that employers prefer to hire lighter-skinned African Americans over darker-skinned African Americans. How might these hiring preferences contribute to skin-color stratification in the labor market?

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Question 8

Give an example of a light-skinned, woman artist of color, and use the "beauty queue" concept to explain her fame.

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Question 9

Describe the concept of "erotic capital." How does Siobhan Brooks' study of erotic capital illustrate the way in which patriarchy has shaped the relationship between skin color and beauty for women of color?

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Question 10

Do skin-lightening practices suggest that women of color desire to be White? Support your claim with findings from at least two studies discussed in Chapter 5, "Colorism and Skin-color Stratification."

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Question 11

Indian advertisements that promote skin-whitening creams are excellent windows on colorism. How do these advertisements illustrate the relationship between colorism and gender?

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Question 12

Identify an advantage experienced by a light-skinned, person of color who lives in the United States relative to a darker-skinned person from the same racial/ethnic group. Use the concepts of colorism and skin-color stratification to explain the root of this privilege.

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Question 13

Explain the concept of hypodescent in the United States. Does this idea persist in the contemporary U.S.?

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Question 14

The prevalence of skin-whitening creams and skin-lightening practices is a salient reflection of the ways in which colorism operates in countries across the world, suggesting a "global color hierarchy." Select two societies where colorism exists and explain two ways in which it structures social life differently in these two societies.

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Question 15

How did colorism manifest during the era of slavery in the United States? What is the legacy of this colorism?

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Quiz 5: Colorism and Skin-Color Stratification