Video: Documentary about skin bleaching in Jamaica
Watch this eye-opening short documentary on skin bleaching in Jamaica.
VICE News: What It’s Like to Be Discriminated Against by People of Your Own Race
A VICE article offers perspectives from people battling light-skinned and dark-skinned stereotypes.
Europeans were dark-skinned until 8,000 years ago
Genetic analysis has shown that hunter-gatherers living in Spain 8,500 years ago still had dark skin. It was not until 7,800 years ago, when the first farmers migrated from the Near East through Turkey that two key genes that provide lighter skin appeared.
Daily Life: Why the obsession with lighter skin?
A Daily Life article about how the internalisation of white skin as a desirable beauty ideal has led to communities facing their own battles with discrimination.
Al Jazeera Video: Nigeria’s dangerous skin whitening obsession
An Al Jazeera video about Nigeria’s booming skin bleaching market.
RawStory: Ad campaign tells Senegal’s women “all black” is beautiful
Outraged by ads urging women to bleach their skin, a spontaneous movement emerged in Senegal arguing that black is beautiful — and to act otherwise is to risk one’s health.