{"id":1372,"date":"2021-09-07T17:46:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ip.ccde.com.uw.edu\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2024-05-05T20:24:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T20:24:17","slug":"1372","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ip.ccde.com.uw.edu\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"Light-skinned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-b5a552b4\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-0c73e035\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-0c73e035\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n\n<p>In this clip, a grandmother and her grandson share their experiences as lighter skinned Black people and the way people perceive them. The grandmother comments that she recognizes that lighter skin is often considered a privilege and she shares her experiences where she has received preferential treatment compared to her darker skinned colleagues. Her grandson shares that he notices how his skin tone changes the way he is perceived in comparison to his darker skinned peers, which shows how stratifying and harmful colorism is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>If I walked down the street with two shades darker skin with this hair and wearing the clothes I normally wear I would be looked at completely differently. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-5d5674d3\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-5d5674d3\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ip.ccde.com.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-image-cards-11-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ip.ccde.com.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-image-cards-11-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ip.ccde.com.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-image-cards-11-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ip.ccde.com.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-image-cards-11-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ip.ccde.com.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-image-cards-11-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ip.ccde.com.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-image-cards-11-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ip.ccde.com.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-image-cards-11-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ip.ccde.com.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Clip-image-cards-11.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1117125493&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/uw-communications\" title=\"UW Communications\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">UW Communications<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/uw-communications\/light-skinned\" title=\"Light - Skinned\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Light &#8211; Skinned<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandmother and her grandson share their experiences as lighter skinned Black people and the way people perceive them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,39,26,9],"tags":[111,25,304,303,131],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Light-skinned - Interrupting Privilege<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ip.ccde.com.uw.edu\/?p=1372\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Light-skinned - 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