The Model Minority Myth bolsters the idea that Asians experience less hate & prejudice because $$. And explains lack of empathy with our struggles.
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Yellow Indians, White Asians, Black Europeans
… And Green Clovers? It’s easy and sometimes even required in politics to categorize peoples into very simplistic groups. Otherwise it would be difficult
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I think, if there’s one thing I will like about President Obama’s term coming to an end, it is that perhaps the extreme right-wing
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Perhaps more subtle insidious than colorism, Alice Walker’s term for discrimination based on gradations of skin color, is the idea of favoring certain facial
Continue readingThe Darker the Flesh, the Deeper the Soul
I read a post over at Girl You So Well Spoken detailing an apparent casting call for a Ciroc commercial seeking “light-skinned african americans”.
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