Black Men’s Experiences of Colourism in the UK

Phoenix, Aisha; Craddock, Nadia

doi:10.1177/00380385211069507

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“…Pioneering research is also increasingly considering the family practices of groups who have been under-researched. Examples include mothers with No Recourse to Public Funds because the UK government has determined that their migration status warrants exclusion from employment and welfare benefits (Benchekroun, 2021;Dickson, 2022), the negotiation of colourism within families (Phoenix and Craddock, 2022), the ways in which Black parents try to prepare their children to negotiate racism and stay safe (Threlfall, 2018;Anderson et al, 2022;Aral et al, 2022) and, increasingly, research on families of mixed ethnicity (Tizard and Phoenix, 2002;Caballero and Aspinall, 2018;Song, 2019;Lewis, 2021).…”

Section: Making Unrecognised Family Practices Visible: Intersectional...mentioning

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Making diversity visible in often unrecognised family practices

Phoenix¹

2023

Families, Relationships and Societies

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This article makes a small contribution to Families, Relationships and Societies’ knowledge production. It addresses racialised and ethnicised inequalities experienced in the everyday lives of a family constituted through serial migration, where the adult interviewed (‘Lizzie’) reflected on her childhood experience of leaving the Caribbean to join parents she did not remember and siblings she had never met. It reuses material from a larger study of the retrospective narratives of adults who had been childhood serial migrants. A major finding is that Lizzie’s experience of serial migration was intersectional, linked to her social positioning and her experiences of racism at school and felt outsiderness at home in contrast to feelings of belonging and being valued at the Black-led church she attended. The article argues that, while such family experiences are frequently unrecognised, they pattern children’s experiences, their adult relationships and identities and contribute to, and arise from, historical and sociostructural constructions of society.

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Section: Making Unrecognised Family Practices Visible: Intersectional...mentioning

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Making diversity visible in often unrecognised family practices

Phoenix¹

2023

Families, Relationships and Societies

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“…Moreover, the proliferation of skin lighteners shows that anti-Blackness persists within the beauty industry, cultural industries, and society more broadly. Colourism and skin lightening reflect ongoing colonial knowledge practices and are connected to colour-based racial stratification – what is called ‘pigmentocracy’ (Phoenix and Craddock, 2022).…”

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Getting Under the Skin Trade: Towards a Global Sociology of Skin-Lightening Practices

Garner

Bibi

2022

Sociological Research Online

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Skin lightening cuts across multiple and intersecting areas of interest to sociologists. These include consumerism, capital, the body, femininities, masculinities, the power of the media in shaping people’s imaginations, constructions of beauty, and racialised and gendered social relations and representations, with the legacies of colonial pasts playing out in the present. Here, we set out some key themes, patterns, and frames observed in the multidisciplinary work published on skin lightening, and advocate for the addition of other frames for strategic reasons, which we argue in the second half of the article. Foucault’s technologies of self is recommended as a platform for critiquing individualism and the framing of choice; a political economy approach would help establish that skin lightening is a global business and grasp industry-wide patterns. Finally, a shift to looking at discourse and counter-discourse would reframe women as active agents in cultural resistance and change, and not just the relatively passive dupes of the colonial legacy. We thus map out a broad research agenda that would transform skin lightening into an object of broad, sustained sociological research.

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Religious minority identity associates with stress and psychological health among Muslim and Hindu women in Bangladesh and London

Dornisch,

Sievert,

Sharmeen

et al. 2024

American J Hum Biol

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ObjectivesThis study examined the association of minority religious identification (Hindu or Muslim) with self‐reported stress and psychological symptoms among sedentee and immigrant Bangladeshi women.MethodsWomen, aged 35–59 (n = 531) were drawn from Sylhet, Bangladesh and London, England. Muslim immigrants in London and Hindu sedentees in Sylhet represented minority religious identities. Muslim sedentees in Sylhet and Londoners of European descent represented majority religious identities. In bivariate analyses, minority religious identity was examined in relation to self‐reported measures of stress, nervous tension, and depressed mood. Logistic regression was applied to examine the relationship between these variables while adjusting for marital status, parity, daily walking, and perceived financial comfort.ResultsIn bivariate analyses, religious minorities reported more stress than religious majorities in all group comparisons (p < .05), and minority Muslims reported more nervous tension and depressed mood than majority Muslims (p < .05). In logistic regression models, minority Muslims had greater odds of high stress than majority Muslims (OR 2.00, 95% CI 1.18–3.39). Minority Muslims had greater odds of stress (OR 3.05, 95% CI 1.51–6.17) and nervous tension (OR 3.37, 95% CI 1.66–6.87) than majority Londoners. Financial comfort reduced odds of stress and symptoms in all models.ConclusionsSocioeconomic situation, immigration history, and minority ethnicity appear to influence the relationship between religious identity and psychosomatic symptoms in Bangladeshi women. Attention to personal and socioeconomic context is important for research examining the association between religion and mental health.

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Black Men’s Experiences of Colourism in the UK

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Making diversity visible in often unrecognised family practices

Making diversity visible in often unrecognised family practices

Getting Under the Skin Trade: Towards a Global Sociology of Skin-Lightening Practices

Religious minority identity associates with stress and psychological health among Muslim and Hindu women in Bangladesh and London

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