‘The colonizers usually say that it was they who brought us into history. Today we will show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them in their train, right at the back, in the train of their history’ Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973), father of the independence of Guinea Bissau andPoursuivre la lecture de « The ‘positive role’ of colonization : deconstructing a lie »
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The business of racism. The complicated ethics of being a dermatologist in a country where many people want whiter skin
“It starts when children are young. The moment a child is born, relatives start comparing siblings’ skin color. It starts in your own family. But people don’t want to talk about it openly.” Kavitha Emmanuel is the founder of Women of Worth, an Indian NGO that is standing up to an ingrained bias toward lighterPoursuivre la lecture de « The business of racism. The complicated ethics of being a dermatologist in a country where many people want whiter skin »
