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Originally posted by RedefinedDiva
I agree. I am also willing to bet that some of these students that express these sentiments are not the most fair-skinned students in the bunch. I have the same issues in my class. Soror Wonderful, aren't you from the New Orleans area? (I could have you mistaken) If you are, you may know that here we have a different type of skin color challange, like with the whole Creole, passant-blanc, and other foolishness we deal with.
I would suggest that they research the history behind the issue of African-American skin color. Let them research the field vs. house negro issue that seems to pop up in skin color discussions. May I even suggest that they research "paper bag tests." Here is a good article from ABCNews Maybe they can research the "Black is Beautiful" movement from the 1960s.
Good luck on this one. It's hard to "unlearn" this particular prejudice, but it is not impossible. Keep me posted!!
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Soror, I went to Southern so I was in the New Olreans area alot. However I am from California originally. I know the New Orleans mentality though. I may have them read some books but that would require READING which to these students is like kryptonite...but thats another issue. I mean I can see it in the media where they get this crap, but come on this is the year 2005. I think the house v. field negro research might do them some good.