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Growing Up Dark | Jasmin Thana

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As a dark-skinned South Asian woman, I have experienced colorism my entire life. As early as an infant, others communicated my inferiority due to my skin color. For the past 30 years, everyone from elders in my inherited family, peers, teachers, chosen family as well as complete strangers, have all told me that my place is below them, simply because their skin was many shades lighter than mine.
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Going Beyond Romantic Notions of Black Unity

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I write to share something important. We need to start discussing the community I come from and work with are largely first generation immigrants from different African countries. African immigrants are estimated at 3% of the overall immigrant population in the US. While Black, we are not included in traditional African American institutions or communities. And as immigrants, we remain outside mobilization of the large immigrants rights movements.