Title: Layers of blackness
First published: 2007
Description: This is the first book by an author in the UK to tackle the issue of colourism – the process of discrimination based on skin tone among people of the same ethnicity, which values light skin over dark complexions. Colourism is a form of internalised racism brought about by the devaluation of people of African descent through the domination of European hegemonic culture perpetuated through the process of white supremacy. This book traces the evolution of colourism within African descendant communities in the UK, USA, Jamaica and Latin America from a historical and political perspective and examines its present impact on the global African Diaspora.
Subjects: Race identity, Blacks, Black race, Color, African diaspora, Racism, colourism, colorism, race and ethnicity, race and skin colour, the politics of skin tone, Colorism
Places: UK, USA, Jamaica, Latin America
LC classification: HT1581 .G33 2007