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The price of being dark-skinned

The price of being dark-skinned

by Priscilla Ngethe · Apr 27, 2016

There I sat, looking at Sanjana, a beautiful fair skinned, dark eyed and dark haired girl from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in North India, as she told me the almost like mystical myth of how she was born light.

Filed Under: India Tagged With: Asia, black, brown, college, colorism, colourism, couples, dark-skinned, india, love, marriage, men, shadism, women

The schema of things 2 – social identity: caste and class in India

The schema of things 2 – social identity: caste and class in India

by Joy Osula · Apr 26, 2016

From the moment we are born to the moment we draw our last breathe, society puts us into categories and slaps labels on us. We are given names, nationalities and norms to which we should adhere to.

Filed Under: India Tagged With: blog, caste, class, global, identity, india, poverty, social identity, travel

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