I don’t know if this will count as the assignment but you said to go back and redo a blog that we believe we did weak on. I don’t believe I did weak on any blogs, my blog was full of my personality and full of myself being raw. Though I wanted to take the time and do a blog of my own on something that matters to me. It’s about colorism in African women. I decided to find my own readings to read before posting this blog. It’s an article that’s in the book “Race, Gender, and class by Taylor J Matthews and Glenn S. Johnson.

The article is “Skin Complexion in the Twenty-First Century: The Impact of Colorism on African American Women”. Black women already have to struggle being the bottom of the food chain when it comes to humans. You’d think the fact we struggle and we understand the true pain, that we would come together in our own community. There are way too many instances when I feel a dark skin woman doesn’t like me because I’m light skin, or where light skin women try to get me to help them bash darkin women. There is a quote in the article that is as follows “Among african “among african americans there exists there exists an arrangement of skin tones with varying degrees from light to dark; some shades are considered more acceptable than others.”(Matthews/Johnson,250) When they say some shades are considered more acceptable than others, they mean mostly light skin women are considered more acceptable and why you ask? Because we are closer to white/caucasian color. Which is so ignorant and beyond me. Further in that same section they state that the “lightness of a woman’s skin leads to higher personal self esteem and social capital”(250) It made me rethink my life for a second, and honestly my skin has always upset me. I’m too white for the black kids, and too black for the white kids. It’s terrible. Though I can understand why they would think that having light skin would give you more of a personal self esteem. Though I was also in a multi-colored family so I didn’t understand why people compared skin colors and started a light skin VS dark skin women craze. I believe this is a part of ecofeminism because black women have so much in comparison to nature, and they believe in protecting nature and going natural 100%. I think this element should be added to the ecofeminism course at Umass Dartmouth. Understanding black women, and understanding nature. It will give students the outlook when it comes to black women and ecology. A Lot of black women use plant based products for their products. There are so many relations and articles that can support this to be its own section in the course.      

Mathews, Tayler J., and Glenn S. Johnson. “Skin Complexion in the Twenty-First Century: The Impact of Colorism on African American Women.” Race, Gender & Class, vol. 22, no. 1-2, 2015, pp. 248–274. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26505337. Accessed 25 Apr. 2020.