From Black Consciousness to Black Lives Matter: Confronting the colonial legacy of colourism in South Africa

Anjari, Simran

doi:10.1080/10130950.2022.2166240

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“…Van Hout and Wazaify (2021) write of efforts to lighten dark skins through bleaching in African countries such as Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Mali, Senegal, Rwanda, Ghana, South Africa, and Nigeria, as well as in Asian countries such as India, China, Japan, Pakistan, and South Korea. Anjari (2022) examines the origins and evolution of colourism and skin-lightening practices in South Africa, and also explores the strong opposition to these phenomena from the apartheid-era Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and, in the contemporary era, by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists. BLM has its origins in the US but in 2020 it became a global movement as countries joined in the protests against racial injustices.…”

Section: Framings Of Colourism Among Kenyan Twitter Usersmentioning

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“…Much of the key scholarship on colourism has, to date, been done by American academics, thus leading to a strong focus on colourism's manifestations for African-Americans and Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian Americans. At the same time, however, important scholarly contributions have looked at the presence and effects of colourism in Latin America, the Caribbean, the UK, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and parts of Africa (see, for example, Anjari, 2022;Gabriel, 2007;Hall, 2021;Kinuthia et al, 2023;Mishra, 2015;Tekie, 2020).…”

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Framings of colourism among Kenyan Twitter users

Kiarie,

Jones

2023

Afr. j. inf. commun. (Online)

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Colourism is a form of discrimination where dark-skinned people of colour are perceived and treated less favourably than lighter-skinned people of the same ethnic group or racial classification. Much of the scholarly literature on colourism is focused on the experiences of African-Americans in the United States, but there is also substantial literature examining colourism’s impacts for Americans of Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian ancestry, and for people of colour in the Caribbean, Latin America, the UK, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and parts of Africa. To date, there has not been significant scholarly focus on the phenomenon as it manifests in Kenya. This study sought to address that research gap by: (1) exploring the extent to which colourism is an issue of concern among Kenyan users of the social media platform Twitter; and (2) identifying the main colourism themes present in posts in the Kenyan Twitter ecosystem. The research entailed mining Kenyan Twitter data for nine and a half months in 2022, which resulted in the documentation of 7,726 unique posts on elements of colourism, as posted from 5,094 unique Twitter user accounts. Using inductive frame analysis, three predominant thematic categories were identified across the posts: (1) colourism perceptions; (2) colourism experiences; and (3) colourism influence. The frame analysis also uncovered sub-themes in each of these three broad categories. It was found that most of the Kenyan Twitter users who tweeted on matters of colourism during the period studied both acknowledged the existence of colourism’s manifestations and at the same time rejected the manifestations, advocating for a future free from such discrimination.

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Section: Framings Of Colourism Among Kenyan Twitter Usersmentioning

confidence: 99%