{"id":26595,"date":"2012-11-21T23:24:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T23:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26595"},"modified":"2012-11-21T23:58:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T23:58:21","slug":"hue-phenotype-colorism-even-more-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26595","title":{"rendered":"Hue & Phenotype: Colorism… Even More Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hue & Phenotype: Colorism… Even More Complex<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

50shadesofblack.com | Fueling Conversation<\/a>
\n2012-09-21<\/p>\n

Dash Harris<\/a><\/strong>
\nIn.a.Dash.Media<\/em><\/p>\n

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I have interviewed over 100 people for this docu-series and recently I\u2019ve come across more and more interviewees who ask me about my background. I\u2019ve had a handful of Caribbeans ask me if I were \u2018dougla,\u2019 a person of Indian or indigenous and African ancestry and when I was in Honduras I was called a mulatta<\/a>, which means the same. Usually someone who identifies as a mulatto is of european and african ancestry but that\u2019s not how it was used in Honduras among the people who described me as such. I asked the reasons for these assumptions and people pointed out that my skin wasn\u2019t \u201cvery dark\u201d and my hair was curly and my eyes were \u201cdifferent.\u201d I found that interesting because I consider myself a chocolate brown, my hair has gone days without a comb being ran through it because of the wrangling that it calls for and I see my eyes as any other person\u2019s eyes can be. One Garifuna<\/a> young man said I wasn\u2019t \u2018black enough\u2019 and I could remedy that by getting a \u2018super black boyfriend,\u2019 he graciously volunteered himself. All courting aside, I thought he and many others were just pointing out the phenotypes that guide perception and categorization of ancestry in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is important to note that the U.S. is the only country that followed the one drop rule<\/a> of hypo-descent<\/a>, where you were considered \u2018Black\u2019 no matter what other ancestry you had. This did not exist in Latin America so it gave way to many ways to describe someone based on skin tone, hair color, hair texture, size of nose, lips, eyes. These all decide what category you\u2019ll fit into. Your desciptors may also vary just based on individual perception. In Brazil there are 134 color descriptors<\/a>. In the Dominican Republic \u2018javao\u2019 describes someone who is of pale of light complexion with \u201cAfrican features,\u201d the list below shows more…<\/p>\n

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