The Color Of Your Skin

Author : Desirée Acevedo
Publisher : Cuento de Luz
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9788418302411

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The Color of Your Skin by Desirée Acevedo Pdf

An entertaining yet creative way to address and celebrate diversity among young children. Like a multicolor pencil palette, what defines human beings is their uniqueness and their diversity.Vega and her colored pencils are inseparable. Together they create the most impressive drawings that are showcased in the best museum in the world: the refrigerator at home. Vega uses all the colors you can imagine for her drawings: red, yellow, blue, gold, and more.One day at school, Vega is immersed in one of her new creations when her friend Alex stops by, and peers into the box of pencils Vega had on her table. “Can you lend me the skin-colored pencil, please?” he asks. Skin-colored? Vega and Alex wonder why there is such a color in the box.With curiosity and creativity they explore the diversity skin tones of the people around them, and discover that the “skin-color” can have not just one, but a thousand shades.

Author : Michael Phillips
Publisher : Bethany House
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780764227028

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Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart, The by Michael Phillips Pdf

Katie and Mayme face new challenges to their safety and the survival of the plantation. Shenandoah Sisters book 3.

Author : Lori L. Tharps
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780807076781

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Same Family, Different Colors by Lori L. Tharps Pdf

Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Colorism and color bias—the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin—is a pervasive and damaging but rarely openly discussed phenomenon. In this unprecedented book, Lori L. Tharps explores the issue in African American, Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race families and communities by weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis. The result is a compelling portrait of the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Tharps, the mother of three mixed-race children with three distinct skin colors, uses her own family as a starting point to investigate how skin-color difference is dealt with. Her journey takes her across the country and into the lives of dozens of diverse individuals, all of whom have grappled with skin-color politics and speak candidly about experiences that sometimes scarred them. From a Latina woman who was told she couldn’t be in her best friend’s wedding photos because her dark skin would “spoil” the pictures, to a light-skinned African American man who spent his entire childhood “trying to be Black,” Tharps illuminates the complex and multifaceted ways that colorism affects our self-esteem and shapes our lives and relationships. Along with intimate and revealing stories, Tharps adds a historical overview and a contemporary cultural critique to contextualize how various communities and individuals navigate skin-color politics. Groundbreaking and urgent, Same Family, Different Colors is a solution-seeking journey to the heart of identity politics, so that this more subtle “cousin to racism,” in the author’s words, will be exposed and confronted.

Author : Robert A. Pratt
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992-03-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 081392457X

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The Color of Their Skin by Robert A. Pratt Pdf

A major study of school desegregation in a Virginia locality, The Color of Their Skin traces the evolution of Richmond public schools from segregation to desegregation to resegregation over the decades following the Brown decision.

Author : Karen Katz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250811158

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The Colors of Us by Karen Katz Pdf

A positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist's perspective. Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhood, Lena learns that brown comes in many different shades. Through the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people. Karen Katz created The Colors of Us for her daughter, Lena, whom she and her husband adopted from Guatemala six years ago.

Author : Bedford Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : African American families
ISBN : 167383874X

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"Daddy Why Am I Brown?" by Bedford Palmer Pdf

Joy lives in a diverse world and comes from a multicultural family. It is only natural for her to have some questions. Join Joy as she learns how to describe skin color, and about how her skin color can tell her about where her family is from, but not really about who they are. "Daddy Why Am I Brown?" is a meant to be a starter conversation on how kids can learn to talk about skin color in a way that is kind, thoughtful, and healthy. And in the process, they learn a little bit about how to understand the difference between race, ethnicity, and culture.

Author : Nina G. Jablonski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520283862

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Living Color by Nina G. Jablonski Pdf

This book investigates the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body's most visible trait influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. The author begins with the biology and evolution of skin pigmentation, explaining how skin color changed as humans moved around the globe. She explores the relationship between melanin pigment and sunlight, and examines the consequences of rapid migrations, vacations, and other lifestyle choices that can create mismatches between our skin color and our environment. Richly illustrated, this book explains why skin color has come to be a biological trait with great social meaning-- a product of evolution perceived by culture. It considers how we form impressions of others, how we create and use stereotypes, how negative stereotypes about dark skin developed and have played out through history. Offering examples of how attitudes about skin color differ in the U.S., Brazil, India, and South Africa, the author suggests that a knowledge of the evolution and social importance of skin color can help eliminate color-based discrimination and racism.

Author : Kimberly Jade Norwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317819561

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Color Matters by Kimberly Jade Norwood Pdf

In the United States, as in many parts of the world, people are discriminated against based on the color of their skin. This type of skin tone bias, or colorism, is both related to and distinct from discrimination on the basis of race, with which it is often conflated. Preferential treatment of lighter skin tones over darker occurs within racial and ethnic groups as well as between them. While America has made progress in issues of race over the past decades, discrimination on the basis of color continues to be a constant and often unremarked part of life. In Color Matters, Kimberly Jade Norwood has collected the most up-to-date research on this insidious form of discrimination, including perspectives from the disciplines of history, law, sociology, and psychology. Anchored with historical chapters that show how the influence and legacy of slavery have shaped the treatment of skin color in American society, the contributors to this volume bring to light the ways in which colorism affects us all--influencing what we wear, who we see on television, and even which child we might pick to adopt. Sure to be an eye-opening collection for anyone curious about how race and color continue to affect society, Color Matters provides students of race in America with wide-ranging overview of a crucial topic.

Author : Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804770996

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Shades of Difference by Evelyn Nakano Glenn Pdf

Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a broad range of societies and historical periods, this insightful collection looks at how skin color affects people's opportunities in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and North America. Is skin color bias distinct from racial bias? How does skin color preference relate to gender, given the association of lightness with desirability and beauty in women? The authors of this volume explore these and other questions as they take a closer look at the role Western-dominated culture and media have played in disseminating the ideal of light skin globally. With its comparative, international focus, this enlightening book will provide innovative insights and expand the dialogue around race and gender in the social sciences, ethnic studies, African American studies, and gender and women's studies.

Author : Thiênna Ho
Publisher : Thienna Incorporated
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Diet therapy
ISBN : 0979210305

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Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color by Thiênna Ho Pdf

Author : James E. Puckett
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781098082048

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Why Does My Skin Color Matter? by James E. Puckett Pdf

We all have a past that we sometimes try to forget. When a situation arises that reminds us of our past, we must not allow it to dictate our future but somehow use our past experiences to propel us to do better. As our society deals with issues of racism and hate between people of different races, gender, and ethnicity groups, it brings back memories of my childhood while living as a Black person in the mid-1950s and the 1960s. In this book, I highlight some of the events I personally experienced, others that were told to me by reliable sources, and some are fictional to give the reader a snapshot of what it was like being born and living during these times. The stories I tell in this book draws the contrast between two small boys of different skin colors and how they didn’t allow the color of their skin to affect their friendship and the comparison between two different sets of parents who taught their children to love people of all skin colors and treat others the way you would want to be treated. Sometimes our past leaves bruises and wounds that cannot be healed by us alone, but with God’s help, we can heal over time.

Author : Michael R. Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Female friendship
ISBN : OCLC:244158557

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The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart by Michael R. Phillips Pdf

Author : David Zyla
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781101486221

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Color Your Style by David Zyla Pdf

Move over Color Me Beautiful, an Emmy Award-winning costume designer shows women how to find their authentic style archetype. David Zyla has made women look sensational on the runway, television, and Broadway for twenty years. In Color Your Style ,David shows how every woman can unlock her authentic style based on a combination of her personality, her eight true colors, and one of twenty-four color-palette archetypes-from the Wholesome Flirt to the Romantic Poetess to The Maverick. Through quizzes, charts, and stories, women can discover the colors, clothes, and accessories that will attract love, power, energy, and attention. Color Your Style is like getting an astrological reading-only color-inspired-allowing you to learn more about yourself while you make over your wardrobe. We are at our best when we feel comfortable, confident, and know we look fantastic. Zyla and Color Your Style shows women how to be their best-without being slaves to designer labels or the latest trends.

Author : John DeSantis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015021641595

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For the Color of His Skin by John DeSantis Pdf

Examination and analysis of the murder of Yusuf Hawkins and the community of Bensonhurst where he was murdered.

Author : Lucretia Carter Berry, PhD
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780593234631

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Hues of You by Lucretia Carter Berry, PhD Pdf

Help children celebrate the incredible range of hues all around them with this activity book that provides an interactive, engaging, and age-appropriate way to navigate conversations around skin tone, race, and racism. Every person’s skin has a particular shade—or hue—that we can appreciate. Children naturally wonder: Why are there so many skin colors? Why do I look a lot like some people and different from others? Which words best describe my skin color? But sometimes we feel uncomfortable talking about skin tone, ethnicity, and race. That’s about to change! Inside these pages, kids will get to explore the ways each of us is uniquely designed and discover positive, creative ways to think and talk about the wonderful diversity of hues found in humanity. Crafted by an experienced educator and advocate for antiracism, Hues of You is divided into four main sections: Hues of You, Hues of Your Family, Hues of Your Ancestors, and Hues of Your Friends. This activity book offers a smart and honest starting point to spark natural, effective, and meaningful conversations in our families, schools, and communities.