Exogenous ochronosis is a potential side effect associated with hydroquinone, and
treatment is often unsatisfactory. Our study objectives were to review data on hydroquinone …

Cosmetic skin lightening is a growing dermatologic public health problem that affects
communities of color worldwide. Despite well-documented adverse health effects, cosmetic …

For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous feature of global popular
culture—embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely opposed by medical …

Consistent discriminatory practices associated with dark and black skin color underpin the
persistence of colorism and racism in the Indian subcontinent. To understand better how …

Although it is evident that colourism is central to the lives of adolescents of colour, more
research is needed concerning the use of skin-lightening products among adolescents …

This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in Scandinavia are formed
along both cultural and embodied lines, arguing that while the official discourses in the …

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MARGARET BEALE SPENCER & NANCY E. DOWD FOREWORD BY WALTER ALLEN …

Colorism has a deleterious effect on cognition and health impacting populations. Among
African Americans, colorism and social stratification based on skin complexion, has …

Skin color, along with hair and eye color, is genetically determined by the amount of melanin
found in the top layers of skin. Its varied presence–which accounts for different skin colors-is …

Science, aesthetics, the body, and the concerns they attach to, such as gender,'race', class,
age and consumer culture, are key objects of sociological investigation. These discourses …