Shanya Hayes | In Her Own VoicePosted in Articles, Media Archive, Social Science, United States, Videos, Women on 2016-11-29 02:01Z by Steven |
Shanya Hayes | In Her Own Voice
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development
Oakland, California
2016-11-03
Shanya Hayes is going places. While many students her age spend their summer vacations doing anything but school work, this bright young scholar has been staking out her future.
And as her ambition leads her toward new understandings, she’s learning more about what her journey might entail as a young Black woman growing up in a society still deeply marked by bias and its profound but not always visible effects…
…Shanya’s interests led her to research a topic that was new to her as a concept but, as she would discover, was something she had already seen and experienced: colorism.
“Colorism is skin-tone bias, which is basically racial inequalities within race, with the idea that being lighter is better, within all races,” Shanya explains…
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