Shades of Privilege
Colourism harms the work and love prospects of darker skinned people around the world
Business Daily · BBC World Service
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (open.live.bbc.co.uk) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
Colourism is a more insidious form of racism, and harms the prospects of finding work and love for people with darker skin around the world.
Natasha Pizzey reports from Mexico and Daniel Gallas reports from Brazil on the efforts to fight back against the prejudice against skin tone, which often emanates from within the same ethnic community as the victims. Meanwhile, Ed Butler speaks to Sunil Bhatia, a professor of human development at Connecticut College in the US, who has studied the rise of this phenomenon around the world.
(Picture: Two young black women with contrasting skin tones; Credit: PeopleImages/Getty Images)