Document Type
Essay
Publication Date
Spring 2022
Abstract
This essay recounts the origins of colorism in slavery practices in the United States and examines how skin tone is still a factor today in the media and film industry - perpetuating stereotypes and harming self-esteem.
Recommended Citation
Coachi, Abigail, "The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice?" (2022). Richard T. Schellhase Essay Prize in Ethics. 39.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/ethics_essay/39
Included in
Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons
Comments
Honorable mention prize winner.