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"In Double Dutching In My Own Skin: A Soulful Narrative on Colorism, Dr. LaWanda Simpkins takes us on a powerful, storied journey through her lived experience as a light-skinned Black woman. From her lens - one often considered one of color privilege - she asks the important question, ""Can a person be privileged for the same identity that they are oppressed for?"" and gets our heads spinning in search of the answer. This thought-provoking autoethnographic exploration is empowering, sincere, brilliant, and a necessary contribution to the Colorism lexicon. —Dawn N. Hicks Tafari, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education, Winston-Salem State University Author of “Whose World is This?”: A Composite Counterstory of Black Male Elementary School Teachers as Hip-Hop Otherfathers This represents an important contribution to understanding the intersectionality of intra-racial gender norming and skin tone interpersonal appraisals as ingredients for adverse black-on-black interaction. The author’s auto-ethnographic contribution thoroughly delivered the nature of a Black Woman’s war within. It is extremely rare to advance discussions of colorism beyond the ”halo-effect” to discover intrasexual social conflict. Kudos to the author for the courage to delve into the painful reality of intra-racial and gendered skin tone victimization. —Dr. Steven R. Cureton, Professor and Chair of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Sociology Department"

"This represents an important contribution to understanding the intersectionality of intra-racial gender norming and skin tone interpersonal appraisals as ingredients for adverse black-on-black interaction. The author’s auto-ethnographic contribution thoroughly delivered the nature of a Black Woman’s war within. It is extremely rare to advance discussions of colorism beyond the ”halo-effect” to discover intrasexual social conflict. Kudos to the author for the courage to delve into the painful reality of intra-racial and gendered skin tone victimization. —Dr. Steven R. Cureton, Professor and Chair of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Sociology Department In Double Dutching In My Own Skin: A Soulful Narrative on Colorism, Dr. LaWanda Simpkins takes us on a powerful, storied journey through her lived experience as a light-skinned Black woman. From her lens - one often considered one of color privilege - she asks the important question, ""Can a person be privileged for the same identity that they are oppressed for?"" and gets our heads spinning in search of the answer. This thought-provoking autoethnographic exploration is empowering, sincere, brilliant, and a necessary contribution to the Colorism lexicon. —Dawn N. Hicks Tafari, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education, Winston-Salem State University Author of “Whose World is This?”: A Composite Counterstory of Black Male Elementary School Teachers as Hip-Hop Otherfathers"

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LaWanda M. Simpkins, Ph.D. is an independent scholar and founder of Creative Justice, Inc., a non-profit organization centered on social justice and advocacy. She received her PhD and certificate in Women’s & Gender Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a proud alumna of North Carolina A&T State University

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