Toban Black

Raven at the skin coloured blog -
“normal to darker skin”
(A photo of a bottle of “body lotion”)    [via Sociological Images]

“chepchumba” at her jepchumba blog -
“500 yrs of Women In Art.. and none of them look like me.”
(… “These paintings are considered culturally significant to the western world” …)

Lisa at the Sociological Images blog -
“Ann Ducille on ‘ethnic’ barbies”

Red Jenny at her blog -
“Visual hybridity”
(… “These interesting photographs illustrate how we construct the race of people of blended heritage” …)

Lisa at the Sociological Images blog -
“Black and white twins”
(… “[an illustration of] how skin color (which is real) is translated into categorical racial categories (which are not)” …)

Lisa at the Sociological Images blog -
“A simple lesson on the social construction of race”
(… “if we consider a wide range of people, it becomes clear that skin color comes in a spectrum, not in categories” …)

“lenin” at the blog Lenin’s Tomb -
“The blackness of Dessalines”
(On one way in which racist hierarchies were subverted in Haiti during the early 1800s)

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(The image at the top of this post is part of John William Waterhouse’s painting “Ophelia”)

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A related post -
“One human race“