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Topic: Exploring how Black women college graduates perceive colorism and how it influences career progression
Literature Review Resources
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Blake, J. J., Keith, V. M., Luo, W., Le, H., & Salter, P. (2017). The role of colorism in explaining African American females’ suspension risk. School Psychology Quarterly, 32(1), 118.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/spq0000173
    
    
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Blake et al., (2017) in their work attempted to explore the impact of colorism further elaborating on the suspension risk through utilization of a nationally representative sample comprising of adolescent females. The increased rates of suspensions of the African American female students have garnered attention in recent times. The study results revealed colorism as a significant predictor in terms of school suspension risk after careful controlling of certain other confounding factors. In contrast to their white female peers, the African American female adolescents possessing darker complexions were reported almost twice as likely to get an out-of-school suspension. However, no such finding was reported with respect to African American female students having lighter skin tones. Therefore, this article acts as a valuable resource for gaining an insight into the implications associated with following a colorist framework to understand the school discipline outcomes thereby aiding in advancement of research in this domain.
    
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Uzogara, E. E. (2019). Dark and sick, light and healthy: black women’s complexion-based health disparities. Ethnicity & health, 24(2), 125-146.
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13557858.2017.1315376
    
    
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Uzogara, (2019) in his study investigated the chances concerning the manner in which stress and health are measured might influence the disparate health outcomes among darker skinned Black women and lighter skinned women. Across two cross-sectional samples, black American women with varied skin tones were studied. Both the objective or count measures in addition to global measure of health were utilized for examining the women’s skin tone health disparities. Moreover, in case of the Detroit area study, disparities in terms of exposure to stress were measured using both count as well as global measures. The study indicated that research concerning health disparities might harbor potential benefit by considering Black women’s skin tones as a crucial social determinant of health. Furthermore, an important contribution of this article is that it stated use of subjective measures of health might cover up within-race health disparities across different complexions apart from masking the magnitude of disparities across race.
    
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Wassink, J., Perreira, K. M., & Harris, K. M. (2017). Beyond race/ethnicity: Skin color and cardiometabolic health among blacks and hispanics in the United States. Journal of immigrant and minority health, 19(5), 1018-1026.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-016-0495-y
    
    
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Wassink et al., (2017) in their study explored whether darker interviewer-ascribed skin color is linked with debilitating cardiometabolic health in case of adult Blacks and Hispanics residing in United States. Both logistic as well as OLS regressions were utilized for prediction of hypertension, diabetes, obesity and cardiometabolic risk. The interaction among the Hispanic immigrant generation and ascribed skin color was also studied. Worse cardiometabolic health outcome among youth adult Blacks and Hispanics was noted through prediction of darker ascribed skin color. The associations were reported to be highest among both the third and higher generation respondents in case of the Hispanics. Thus, it was interpreted that the health and wellbeing of the US Blacks and Hispanics may be attributed to the perceptions of others via their skin colors. Moreover, it was indicated that the gradients with respect to cardiometabolic health in young adulthood might lead to affecting the gradients in cardiovascular disease besides all-cause mortality in later life.
    
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Price-Dennis, D., Muhammad, G. E., Womack, E., McArthur, S. A., & Haddix, M. (2017). The multiple identities and literacies of black girlhood: A conversation about creating spaces for black girl voices. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 13(2),...