Posts tagged: skin bleaching

The Growing Illegal Trade of Skin Bleaching Products

The story of Marcia, a Jamaican woman, is articulated in this video, where she tells us about her physical and psychological scars associated with a long history of skin bleaching. From the video it is also clear that the illegal trade of skin bleaching products to counties and communities of Colour is significant. Despite banning [...]

Sunday November 23rd, 2008 in , Elora Consulting, Europe, Jamaica, Jamaican, Jamaican Researcher, skin bleaching, skin lightening, St. Rachel Ustanny, trade, video | 2 Comments »

A Historical Review of Perceptions of Beauty and Colour in the Jamaican Society

I decided to write this post as a follow-up to my articles: From Skin Lightening… and Skin Cancer… so as to demonstrate the impact of socialization on perceptions of beauty and colour, and the retention of such values for more than 30 years between 1940 when Kerr and Henriques researched the issue and 1970 when [...]

Sunday November 23rd, 2008 in , colour prejudice, concepts of beauty, discrimination, Elora Consulting, Errol Miller, Jamaica, Jamaican, Jamaican Researcher, race, racism, skin bleaching, skin lightening, social stratification, St. Rachel, St. Rachel Ustanny | No Comments »
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