Sentences with phrase «perception of their skin color»

This paper describes the development of a new measure to assess children's perception of their skin color and their satisfaction with it.

Not exact matches

People who study face perception have been arguing that when we meet new people, all we are learning about their faces are so - called static features that don't change, like the shape and size of their face and skin color.

While her subjects are always African - American, Sherald renders their skin - tone exclusively in grisaille — an absence of color that directly challenges perceptions of black identity and seeks, in the artist's words, «to exclude the idea of color as race.»

Meaning «Hail the Dark Lioness» in Zulu, she confronts racism by photographing herself while on the road, highlighting various aspects of her identity which speak to her skin color, ethnicity and the cultural perceptions and stereotypes of femininity and African culture.

Dermo Optics is an account of the artist's visit with Dr. Yvonne Duplessis, director of the Centre de I» Information de Couleur in Paris and a researcher into eyeless sight, the perception of color via a sensation in the skin (touch is not necessarily involved).

These new autobiographical works portray the tangled roots of her ancestry and deal with her interpretation and perception of prejudice, often among African - Americans themselves, in reaction to the blending and merging of skin colors and cultures.

One should not lightly dismiss the inherent unfairness of, and the perception of mistreatment that accompanies, a system of allocating benefits and privileges on the basis of skin color and ethnic origin.