Amymu123

About me

Hello! My name is Amy and I am a student at Rice University. I'm interested in immigration, women's health, and environmental justice.

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WikiProject Discrimination.

Edited articles

• Immigrant health care in the United States

Potential new topics

I am interested in working on the page titled Skin whitening. The existing article is heavily focused on the scientific aspect of it, meaning techniques used to achieve it or the biochemical mechanisms behind it. I would like to expand the social and cultural discussion of skin whitening in this article. Specifically, I would like to discuss the history and social implications of skin whitening in different communities as well. I am also interested in working on the Model Minority page with a United States focus. I considered this article last semester but ultimately chose another article because I was not sure how I would like to contribute to it. I am interested in revisiting it and creating a new article specifically for a United States focus. The existing parent article “Model minority” has very little coverage on other nations – though it does specify that the concept of the model minority is most frequently used in the United States – and is currently described as C-class. Despite this, I think it would be beneficial to have a separate article for the United States, as the United States section in this article is extremely long and could be reorganized for greater clarity. I also would like to include more discussion of how the concept of model minorities impacts race dynamics holistically – how perceptions of other races are viewed in this context.

Skin whitening

Blay, Yaba. “Skin Bleaching and Global White Supremacy: By Way of Introduction.” Journal of Pan African Studies 4, no. 4 (2011). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00365.

Davids, Lester M., Jennifer Van Wyk, Nonhlanhla P. Khumalo, and Nina G. Jablonski. “The Phenomenon of Skin Lightening: Is It Right to Be Light?” South African Journal of Science Volume 112, no. Number 11/12 (2016). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2016/20160056.

Dixon, Angela R., and Edward E. Telles. “Skin Color and Colorism: Global Research, Concepts, and Measurement.” Annual Review of Sociology 43, no. 1 (2017): 405–24. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053315.

Hall, Ronald E. “The Globalization of Light Skin Colorism: From Critical Race to Critical Skin Theory.” American Behavioral Scientist 62, no. 14 (2018): 2133–45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764218810755.

Jacobs, Meagan, Susan Levine, Kate Abney, and Lester Davids. “Fifty Shades of African Lightness: a Bio-Psychosocial Review of the Global Phenomenon of Skin Lightening Practices.” Journal of Public Health in Africa 7, no. 2 (2016). https://doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2016.552.

Li, Eric, Hyun Jeong Min, and Russell Belk. “Skin Lightening and Beauty in Four Asian Cultures.” Advances in Consumer Research 35 (n.d.): 444–49. https://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/13415/volumes/v35/NA-35.

Peltzer, Karl, Supa Pengpid, and Caryl James. “The Globalization of Whitening: Prevalence of Skin Lighteners (or Bleachers) Use and Its Social Correlates among University Students in 26 Countries.” International Journal of Dermatology 55, no. 2 (2015): 165–72. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijd.12860.

Pierre, Jemima. “Structure, Project, Process: Anthropology, Colonialism, and Race in Africa.” Journal of Anthropological Sciences 96 (2018): 213–19. https://doi.org/doi 10.4436/JASS.96017.

Ravi Shankar, P, and P Subish. “Fair Skin in South Asia: an Obsession? .” Journal of Pakistan Association of Dermatologists, no. 17 (2007): 100–104. http://jpad.com.pk/index.php/jpad/article/viewFile/695/668.

Shroff, Hemal, Phillippa C. Diedrichs, and Nadia Craddock. “Skin Color, Cultural Capital, and Beauty Products: An Investigation of the Use of Skin Fairness Products in Mumbai, India.” Frontiers in Public Health 5 (2018). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00365.

Model minority

Choi, Yoonsun, and Benjamin B. Lahey. “Testing the Model Minority Stereotype: Youth Behaviors across Racial and Ethnic Groups.” Social Service Review 80, no. 3 (2006): 419–52. https://doi.org/10.1086/505288.

Hirschman, Charles, and Morrison G. Wong. “The Extraordinary Educational Attainment of Asian-Americans: A Search for Historical Evidence and Explanations.” Social Forces 65, no. 1 (1986): 1. https://doi.org/10.2307/2578933.

Kim, Claire Jean. “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans.” Politics & Society 27, no. 1 (1999): 105–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329299027001005.

Li, Guofang. Model Minority Myth Revisited: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Demystifying Asian American Educational Experiences. Charlotte, NC: IAP, 2008.

Museus, Samuel D. “The Model Minority and the Inferior Minority Myths: Understanding Stereotypes and Their Implications for Student Learning.” About Campus 13, no. 3 (2008): 2–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/abc.252.

Poon, Oiyan, Dian Squire, Corinne Kodama, Ajani Byrd, Jason Chan, Lester Manzano, Sara Furr, and Devita Bishundat. “A Critical Review of the Model Minority Myth in Selected Literature on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education.” Review of Educational Research 86, no. 2 (2016): 469–502. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654315612205.

Porter, Judith R., and Robert E. Washington. “Minority Identity and Self-Esteem.” Annual Review of Sociology 19, no. 1 (1993): 139–61. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.so.19.080193.001035

Suzuki, Bob H. “Education and the Socialization of Asian Americans: A Revisionist Analysis of the ‘Model Minority’ Thesis.” Amerasia Journal 4, no. 2 (1977): 23–51. https://doi.org/10.17953/amer.4.2.x203l74863857108.

Whaley, Arthur L., and La Tonya Noel. “Academic Achievement and Behavioral Health among Asian American and African American Adolescents: Testing the Model Minority and Inferior Minority Assumptions.” Social Psychology of Education 16, no. 1 (2012): 23–43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-012-9206-2.

Wong, Paul, Chienping Faith Lai, Richard Nagasawa, and Tieming Lin. “Asian Americans as a Model Minority: Self-Perceptions and Perceptions by Other Racial Groups.” Sociological Perspectives 41, no. 1 (1998): 95–118. https://doi.org/10.2307/1389355.

Proposed work for Skin whitening

For my Wikipedia-sponsored course, I plan to contribute to the existing article titled Skin whitening. The existing article focuses primarily on the various chemical treatments and biochemical mechanisms that achieve skin whitening. There are two sections titled “History” and “Society and culture” that are substantially shorter. I would like to expand these subsections by exploring the history of skin whitening as a practice around the world and I would also like to discuss current practices and the prevalence of skin whitening techniques in various nations. In addition to this, I would like to add two new subsections to discuss motivations for skin whitening and health implications. Skin whitening is a fairly prominent practice in various cultures, but the motivations do differ and I hope that I can present this variety to avoid issues and concerns of bias. Some of the sources I plan to use are listed in the above section!