{"id":45231,"date":"2016-01-20T23:01:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T23:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45231"},"modified":"2016-01-20T23:01:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T23:01:23","slug":"unf-professor-explores-the-impact-of-skin-tone-on-the-everyday-lives-of-african-american-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45231","title":{"rendered":"UNF professor explores the impact of skin tone on the everyday lives of African-American women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jacksonville.com\/news\/schools\/2016-01-18\/story\/unf-professor-explores-many-shades-african-american-women-says-skin\" target=\"_blank\">UNF professor explores the impact of skin tone on the everyday lives of African-American women<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jacksonville.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\">The Florida Times-Union<\/a><br \/>\n2016-01-18<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rhemathompson\" target=\"_blank\">Rhema Thompson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unf.edu\/bio\/N00629029\/\" target=\"_blank\">JeffriAnne Wilder<\/a> always knew African-Americans came in many shades. She saw it in her own family, from her light-skinned older sister to her two dark-skinned brothers. Her complexion fell somewhere in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the variation at home, but I didn\u2019t place any value on it,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Around age 10 that began to change. She noticed the light-skinned girls in her predominantly black <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cleveland\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland<\/a> elementary class seemed to be treated differently. Other students seemed enamored by their creamy complexions and wavy hair.<\/p>\n<p>Decades later, that sentiment hit closer to home when she became pregnant with her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had lots of people just assume because my ex-husband is biracial and light-skinned with green eyes that she was going to be light-skinned, too,\u201d she said. \u201c \u2018Oh, you\u2019re going to have the prettiest daughter. She\u2019s going to be so pretty. She\u2019s going to be light and blah, blah, blah,\u2019 and I remember telling people \u2018What happens if she\u2019s not light-skinned? What if she ends up like me?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, an associate sociology professor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unf.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of North Florida<\/a> and director of the school\u2019s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unf.edu\/aa\/srer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnic Relations<\/a>, Wilder is sharing her observations and the experiences of 66 other black women in her first published book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45225\" target=\"_blank\">Color Stories<\/a>.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/jacksonville.com\/news\/schools\/2016-01-18\/story\/unf-professor-explores-many-shades-african-american-women-says-skin\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNF professor explores the impact of skin tone on the everyday lives of African-American women The Florida Times-Union 2016-01-18 Rhema Thompson JeffriAnne Wilder always knew African-Americans came in many shades. She saw it in her own family, from her light-skinned older sister to her two dark-skinned brothers. Her complexion fell somewhere in the middle. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394,20,25],"tags":[240,18143,10309,22700,18142,10308],"class_list":["post-45231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-women","tag-colorism","tag-florida-times-union","tag-jeffrianne-wilder","tag-rhema-thompson","tag-the-florida-times-union","tag-university-of-north-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45231","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=45231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45232,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45231\/revisions\/45232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}