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Skin colour prejudice

Name(s):

Discrimination based on skin colour

Discriminatory language based on skin colour

Prejudicial treatment based on skin colour

Incidence

Early patterns of prejudice based on colour reveal the existence of race thinking long before the emergence of modern racism, and clearly demonstrate the beginnings of centuries-long traditions wherein skin colour served to greater or lesser degrees as the badge of master and subject, of the free and enslaved, and of the dominators and the dominated. Words and phrases (such as "a dark day" or a "black heart") are used to equate bad, depressing, or negative conditions with darkness in a way that is offensive to those of darker skin.

Broader

Racism

Prejudice

Ethnic prejudice

Discriminatory use of language

Narrower

White supremacists

Black supremacists

Discriminatory preferences in organ transplants

Aggravates

Dissatisfaction with skin colour

Hazards of being a black motorist

Aggravated by

Albinism

Melanin impoverishment

Disruptive religious fundamentalism

Strategy(ies)

Reducing skin colour prejudice

Value(s)

Discrimination

Maltreatment

Prejudice

Reference(s)

Dovidio, John D and Gaertner, Samuel L: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism

Adhinarayan, S P: Case for Colour

Type

(C) Cross-sectoral problems

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