{"id":46644,"date":"2016-04-20T23:55:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T23:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46644"},"modified":"2016-04-22T01:32:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T01:32:44","slug":"shade%e2%88%99ism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46644","title":{"rendered":"Shade\u2219ism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/shadeism-tickets-24339731793\" target=\"_blank\">Shade\u2219ism<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsbu.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">London South Bank University<\/a><br \/>\nK2-VG10 Keyworth Street<br \/>\nLondon, SE1 6NG, United Kingdom<br \/>\n<strong>Thursday, 2016-04-21 17:30 BST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us for this Black History Event organised by EquiNet, a network for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff at LSBU. This event is supported by the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit.<\/p>\n<p>This event brings together three speakers who will explore the social impact of gradations in skin tone. Skin colour is a potent signifier of both racial difference and sameness with the desire to have lighter skin evidenced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=17206\" target=\"_blank\">increasing use of bleaching products across the globe<\/a>. Shade\u2219ism or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\">colourism<\/a>\u00a0is experienced intra-racially and is described as discrimination based on (darker) skin tone. The speakers take up the complexity of colourism by exploring skin bleaching and its relationship to shade\u2219ism. Can the colour complex be dealt with effectively or is it an age-old problem that won\u2019t go away?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Programme<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Skin Bleaching: is colourism to blame?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/tate\" target=\"_blank\">Shirley Tate<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor in Race and Culture, <em>Leeds University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shade\u2219ism: the age old issue that won\u2019t go away<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lsbu.ac.uk\/about-us\/people-finder\/dr-yvonne-robinson\" target=\"_blank\">Yvonne Robinson<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Research Fellow, <em>Weeks Centre, LSBU<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Colour Complex<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/in\/kavytak\" target=\"_blank\">Kavyta Raghunandan<\/a><\/strong>, Commonwealth Institute<\/p>\n<p>Followed by a reception on the Mezzanine, Keyworth Centre<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/shadeism-tickets-24339731793\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shade\u2219ism London South Bank University K2-VG10 Keyworth Street London, SE1 6NG, United Kingdom Thursday, 2016-04-21 17:30 BST (Local Time) Join us for this Black History Event organised by EquiNet, a network for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff at LSBU. This event is supported by the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit. This event brings together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,394,10],"tags":[240,23587,2904,2905,23588],"class_list":["post-46644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-colorism","tag-kavyta-raghunandan","tag-shirley-anne-tate","tag-shirley-tate","tag-yvonne-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46644","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=46644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46649,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46644\/revisions\/46649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}