{"id":60990,"date":"2021-06-22T22:22:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60990"},"modified":"2021-06-22T22:22:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:22:07","slug":"phenotypic-proximity-colorism-and-intraracial-discrimination-among-blacks-in-the-united-states-and-brazil-1928-to-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60990","title":{"rendered":"Phenotypic Proximity: Colorism and Intraracial Discrimination among Blacks in the United States and Brazil, 1928 to 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00219347211021088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Phenotypic Proximity: Colorism and Intraracial Discrimination among Blacks in the United States and Brazil, 1928 to 1988<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/home\/jbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal of Black Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/toc\/jbs\/52\/5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 52, Issue 5 (July 2021)<\/a><br \/>\npages 528-546<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00219347211021088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1177\/00219347211021088<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coppin.edu\/view-directory-record?recordID=6603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Teisha Dupree-Wilson<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00219347211021088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/na101\/home\/literatum\/publisher\/sage\/journals\/content\/jbsa\/2021\/jbsa_52_5\/jbsa_52_5\/20210615\/jbsa_52_5.cover.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The level of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colorism<\/a> that developed among blacks in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> (U.S.) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazil<\/a>, during the 20th century, gave rise to intense altitudes of intraracial discrimination. This distinct form of discrimination was based on proximity to whiteness and white privilege. This essay will illustrate how attitudes toward complexion, within the black community, are a direct consequence and perpetual remnant of the white supremacy and racial hierarchy that developed in colonized societies. Colorism manifested itself in different forms in Brazil and in the U.S. However, the level of black-on-black discrimination that it spawned was grounded in the belief that one\u2019s immediacy to whiteness created a vehicle for upward mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00219347211021088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This essay will illustrate how attitudes toward complexion, within the black community, are a direct consequence and perpetual remnant of the white supremacy and racial hierarchy that developed in colonized societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,459,8],"tags":[240,102,31560],"class_list":["post-60990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-colorism","tag-journal-of-black-studies","tag-teisha-dupree-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60990","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=60990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60992,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60990\/revisions\/60992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}