A young San Francisco artist's exhibit at the Museum of African Diaspora explores the issues surrounding beauty and skin color within the Black community.
A young San Francisco artist's exhibit at the Museum of African Diaspora explores the issues surrounding beauty and skin color within the Black community, and it does so using a medium that was once used as a tool for discrimination.The paper is creased, crinkled and careworn. And despite the life-like and beautiful portraits painted on them, the brown paper bags betray their humble beginnings â collected from groceries, shopping centers and corner stores.
The practice, however, could have profound and painful implications for people â socially, emotionally and economically.'Colorism exists because racism exists. And we have not gotten rid of racism,' said Margaret Hunter, a professor of Sociology at Santa Clara University.Hunter said colorism is rooted in racism and mirrors the patterns of discrimination in the wider world.
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