The Fallacy of Colorism

• Autor(a) principal: Monteiro-Ferreira, Ana Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gaudiumsciendi.2015.2879

This paper examines the origins and growing expansion of racism, eventually one of the most powerful social constructs within ideologies of hegemony with their regulatory function in determining which are and are not acceptable human social values and behaviors, categorized and hierarchized for the purpose of defining systems of power and privilege, inclusion and exclusion. It includes the discussion of one of its most perverse cognates, colorism that together with apparently less charged terms like xenophobia, chauvinism, and nationalism, partake the same germs of an ideology of white supremacy, hegemonic power, and privilege and can, unfortunately, be embraced even by its victims, anyone who finds himself/herself in a position of power, be it real or virtual.