Skin color and race
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From Psychology of Race to Issue of Skin Color: Western Trivialization and Peoples of African Descent
In the aftermath of Western colonization is the trivialization of skin color as significant issue in the psychology of peoples of African descent. Although social scientists use race as a key factor in elucidating and understanding human social conditions, skin color and its impact on the social and psychological disposition of people of African descent have been understudied. Oblivious to the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Physical Anthropology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0002-9483,1096-8644
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24200