Colorism
“If you’re black, stay back
If you’re brown stick around;
If you’re yellow, you’re mellow
If you’re white, you’re all right”
The above rhyme is an old children rhyme that took place many years ago. This rhyme clearly depicts colorism.
Colorism is defined as a form of prejudice or discrimination in which human beings of the same race are treated differently based on the social meanings attached to skin colour.
Colorism is not only discrimination based on skin colour, but it also psychological.
In 1939, The Clark Doll Experiment, which was done by psychologist Dr. Kenneth Clark and wife Mamie Clark, who studied educational psychology and became essential in the undertaking of desegregate schools and founded the Northside Centre for child development in Harlem. The study of black children, different genders ages 3 to 9 years, in which each child were taken to a room on separate times and two dolls was given, one doll was white and the other black. Several questions were asked regarding the dolls, these are a few:
“Give me the doll you like to play with, give me the doll that is a nice doll, give me the doll that is nice colour, give me the doll that looks bad, give me the doll that looks like you”
The results were 94% of the children were able to identify racial differences, 66% identified themselves as looking like the black doll, 67% said they rather play with the white doll, 59% said that the black doll was the bad doll. In the end Clark analyse segregated schooling decreased the self-esteem of black students.
The Clark Experiment has been repeated many times over the years, recent experiment was done within the years 2009 to 2013 and the results were slightly compatible throughout the years of the experiment. It is evident that colorism is mental.
Colorism is deemed to originate from slavery. This occurred when black slave women were raped by white slave owners, which resulted in their children skin being of a light-skin colour, curly hair or partially straight
If you’re brown stick around;
If you’re yellow, you’re mellow
If you’re white, you’re all right”
The above rhyme is an old children rhyme that took place many years ago. This rhyme clearly depicts colorism.
Colorism is defined as a form of prejudice or discrimination in which human beings of the same race are treated differently based on the social meanings attached to skin colour.
Colorism is not only discrimination based on skin colour, but it also psychological.
In 1939, The Clark Doll Experiment, which was done by psychologist Dr. Kenneth Clark and wife Mamie Clark, who studied educational psychology and became essential in the undertaking of desegregate schools and founded the Northside Centre for child development in Harlem. The study of black children, different genders ages 3 to 9 years, in which each child were taken to a room on separate times and two dolls was given, one doll was white and the other black. Several questions were asked regarding the dolls, these are a few:
“Give me the doll you like to play with, give me the doll that is a nice doll, give me the doll that is nice colour, give me the doll that looks bad, give me the doll that looks like you”
The results were 94% of the children were able to identify racial differences, 66% identified themselves as looking like the black doll, 67% said they rather play with the white doll, 59% said that the black doll was the bad doll. In the end Clark analyse segregated schooling decreased the self-esteem of black students.
The Clark Experiment has been repeated many times over the years, recent experiment was done within the years 2009 to 2013 and the results were slightly compatible throughout the years of the experiment. It is evident that colorism is mental.
Colorism is deemed to originate from slavery. This occurred when black slave women were raped by white slave owners, which resulted in their children skin being of a light-skin colour, curly hair or partially straight