{"id":38608,"date":"2014-11-29T00:37:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T00:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38608"},"modified":"2014-11-29T00:40:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T00:40:41","slug":"michael-brown-and-the-deadly-effects-of-colorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38608","title":{"rendered":"Michael Brown and the deadly effects of colorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Brown and the deadly effects of colorism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Newsworks: WHYY News<\/a>
\nThe Philadelphia Experiment<\/a>
\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
\n2014-10-30<\/p>\n

Solomon Jones<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The outcry triggered by the killings of unarmed men by police officers \u2014 from Michael Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Mo.<\/a>, to the choking death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY<\/a> \u2014 has largely focused on the victims’ skin color.<\/p>\n

But little has been said about the fact that the men killed by police are not just African American. They are often dark skinned. That deep, ebony complexion, and all that it symbolizes, is significant, said Dr. Yaba Blay<\/a>, co-director and assistant teaching professor of Africana Studies at Drexel University.<\/p>\n

For dark-skinned black men, Blay said, “The unquestionable state of their blackness invokes fear in others. We haven’t seen racially ambiguous men gunned down by police.”<\/p>\n

Complex prejudice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Such violence is just one consequence of what academics call colorism \u2014 the prejudging of others based on complexion…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Brown and the deadly effects of colorism Newsworks: WHYY News The Philadelphia Experiment Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-10-30 Solomon Jones The outcry triggered by the killings of unarmed men by police officers \u2014 from Michael Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Mo., to the choking death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY \u2014 has largely focused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,394,20],"tags":[18564,18565,18567,18568,17766,18566,18562,18561,18563,12553,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-38608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-dan-collins","tag-darlene-sutherland","tag-ellen-berkowitz","tag-eric-garner","tag-michael-brown","tag-nada-elbuluk","tag-newsworks","tag-solomon-jones","tag-the-philadelphia-experiment","tag-whyy","tag-yaba-a-blay","tag-yaba-amgborale-blay","tag-yaba-blay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}