{"id":63613,"date":"2022-03-31T16:19:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T16:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63613"},"modified":"2022-03-31T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T16:27:20","slug":"latinos-have-many-skin-tones-colorism-means-theyre-treated-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63613","title":{"rendered":"Latinos have many skin tones. Colorism means they\u2019re treated differently."},"content":{"rendered":"

Latinos have many skin tones. Colorism means they\u2019re treated differently.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2022-03-31<\/p>\n

Rachel Hatzipanagos<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Loribel Peguero, 22, a New York hairstylist, said her darker-skinned grandmother lamented that it was a “punishment.” (Christopher Gregory for The Washington Post)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Growing up, Anyin\u00e9 Galv\u00e1n-Rodr\u00edguez was not the darkest-skinned member of her part-Dominican, part-Puerto Rican family, and not the lightest.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn every Dominican family, because you have such a melting pot of Spaniard, African and Taino origins, you always have a rainbow of colors,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Even as a child, Galv\u00e1n-Rodr\u00edguez noticed that her physical features shaped how she was treated. While some grandchildren were praised for their looser curls, Galv\u00e1n-Rodr\u00edguez was chastised for her coarse, curly hair.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one ever directly said, \u2018Oh you have bad hair and because you have bad hair, you\u2019re less than the other cousin,\u2019\u201d said Galv\u00e1n-Rodr\u00edguez, 40. \u201cBut it was said like microaggressions.”…<\/p>\n

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

Latinos have many skin tones. Colorism means they\u2019re treated differently. The Washington Post 2022-03-31 Rachel Hatzipanagos Loribel Peguero, 22, a New York hairstylist, said her darker-skinned grandmother lamented that it was a “punishment.” (Christopher Gregory for The Washington Post) Growing up, Anyin\u00e9 Galv\u00e1n-Rodr\u00edguez was not the darkest-skinned member of her part-Dominican, part-Puerto Rican family, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,8,20],"tags":[33371,33388,33392,33389,240,33391,33393,33390,33387,2113,5161,32592,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-63613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-anyine-galvan-rodriguez","tag-ariana-debose","tag-ashley-marte","tag-carolina-contreras","tag-colorism","tag-dahlma-llanos-figueroa","tag-enmanuel-perez","tag-lorgia-garcia-pena","tag-rachel-hatzipanagos","tag-tanya-hernandez","tag-tanya-k-hernandez","tag-tanya-kateri-hernandez-2","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63613","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=63613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63619,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63613\/revisions\/63619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}