Title:	The Melanin Millennium Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse In honor of Carlos Moore, the light of liberation
Authors:	Hall, Ronald E.
Keywords:	The Melanin Millennium
Issue Date:	2013
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	In any postcolonial civilization, the creation of knowledge is of plausible significance because it is the means by which culture is transmitted and sustained. By the fifteenth century, various European powers, including Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, and France, transmitted Western culture via the colonial subjugation of non-Europeanpeoples.ThosewhowerecolonizedbytheWestwerephysiologically differentiatedfromEuropeansvis-`a-visa relativelydarkerskincolor. Referredto as “people of color,” these non-Europeans were native to Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Caribbean. Subsequent to colonization, Europeans as Western operatives imposed their traditions and customs upon people of color while simultaneously denigrating anything other than the Western lifestyle. Germane to that effort is Western intelligentsia’s control of information by the selective manufacturing of knowledge,validated by the prestige of its academy
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/21377
ISBN:	978-94-007-4608-4
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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