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In Double Dutching In My Own Skin: A Soulful Narrative on Colorism, Dr. LaWanda Simpkins takes us on a powerful, storied journey through her lived experience as a light-skinned Black woman. From her lens - one often considered one of color privilege - she asks the important question, "Can a person be privileged for the same identity that they are oppressed for?" and gets our heads spinning in search of the answer. This thought-provoking autoethnographic exploration is empowering, sincere, brilliant, and a necessary contribution to the Colorism lexicon.
—Dawn N. Hicks Tafari, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education, Winston-Salem State University
Author of “Whose World is This?”: A Composite Counterstory of Black Male Elementary School Teachers as Hip-Hop Otherfathers
This represents an important contribution to understanding the intersectionality of intra-racial gender norming and skin tone interpersonal appraisals as ingredients for adverse black-on-black interaction. The author’s auto-ethnographic contribution thoroughly delivered the nature of a Black Woman’s war within. It is extremely rare to advance discussions of colorism beyond the ”halo-effect” to discover intrasexual social conflict. Kudos to the author for the courage to delve into the painful reality of intra-racial and gendered skin tone victimization.
—Dr. Steven R. Cureton, Professor and Chair of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Sociology Department
