Color, Culture, Civilization: Race and Minority Issues in American Society.

Wacker, R. Fred; Lyman, Stanford M.

doi:10.2307/2082335

Cited by 3 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…If social science is to understand women of color, understanding the social implications of light skin for the melanin status of darkskinned women will be imperative to the assessment and ultimate resolution of their problems Wacker [22].…”

Section: The Implications Of Melanin Status For Women Of Colormentioning

confidence: 99%

A Mixed-Methods Approach to Melanin Status: Implications of Light Skin for Women of Color

Liceras‐Garrido

2019

SJRR

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Migration to America has enabled the idealization of light skin, otherwise an alien concept to melanin status for women of color. This alien ideal has social implications impacting women of color's self-esteem, demonstrated via qualitative and quantitative mixed-methods evidence. Implications for women of color are then manifested in the way they perceive, assess, and evaluate their self-potential and hence the quality of life to which they aspire. To educate social scientists about the significance of skin color for melanin status will require the introduction of this concept into the mainstream of social science literature. The viability of social science investigations in an increasingly multi-racial era rests on the willingness of its intelligentsia to accommodate skin color and other alternative issues into the mainstream knowledge base.

show abstract

Section: The Implications Of Melanin Status For Women Of Colormentioning

confidence: 99%

A Mixed-Methods Approach to Melanin Status: Implications of Light Skin for Women of Color

Liceras‐Garrido

2019

SJRR

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…As pertains to the idealization of light skin, the origin of all human civilization evolved logically from the distinction between purity and impurity (Wacker, 1995). This origin was followed by the psychological projection of “dirt” onto dark skin color in dominant group societies.…”

Section: The Lgbtq Bleaching Syndromementioning

confidence: 99%

The Bleaching Syndrome Per Colorism Pathology: LGBTQ Perpetuation of Discrimination

Hall

2018

American Behavioral Scientist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Domination is the preferred and pathological model of assimilation into Western culture. For lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queers (LGBTQs) in America, the resulting stress can reach devastating levels. In response to such circumstances, the assimilation experience of LGBTQ Americans facilitates their manifestation of the Bleaching Syndrome. As a LGBTQ strategy, the Bleaching Syndrome is characterized by the efforts of a stigmatized out-group to assume the identity of a dominant in-group via anatomical paradigm. In this way, assimilation and a better quality of life is presumed assured. Such a strategy, however, in extreme cases may be fatal. For members of LGBTQ out-groups, identity across the life span is alternative to the pathological anatomical paradigm. In this way, LGBTQ Americans may be identified more by gender as who they are and less by genitalia.

show abstract

“…The origin of Indian civilization as Freud suggests evolved logically from the distinction between purity and impurity (Wacker, 1995). This origin was followed by the psychological projection of ‘dirt’ onto dark skin not irrelevant to Western influence.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Skin Colour in India vis-à-vis Bleaching Syndrome Pathology: Augmenting Social Work Curriculum Content

Hall

Mishra

2021

Contemporary Voice of Dalit

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The issue of skin colour has eluded the Indian social work curriculum as an insignificant matter of trivia. However, despite the fact skin colour remains of Indian cultural and social significance. Subsequently, the skin colour issue is then manifested by the bleaching syndrome in stealth inclusive of gender, health and economics. The dynamics of this manifestation are commensurate with dark-skinned Indians in the Indian society at-large. However, reference to the bleaching syndrome is iconoclastic in the Indian scenario and public acknowledgement of it per skin colour is a cultural taboo. While assessing social work curriculum content in an alien Western context, native Indian criteria such as skin colour are rendered vague. Skin colour variables extending from the various sectors of Indian society are then dismissed from curriculum study as insignificant curriculum content. A viable solution might consider inclusion of the bleaching syndrome per skin colour as required curriculum content in Indian social work education to resolve the problem.

show abstract

Color, Culture, Civilization: Race and Minority Issues in American Society.

Cited by 3 publications

References 0 publications

A Mixed-Methods Approach to Melanin Status: Implications of Light Skin for Women of Color

A Mixed-Methods Approach to Melanin Status: Implications of Light Skin for Women of Color

The Bleaching Syndrome Per Colorism Pathology: LGBTQ Perpetuation of Discrimination

Skin Colour in India vis-à-vis Bleaching Syndrome Pathology: Augmenting Social Work Curriculum Content

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About