Firstly, I conducted some research interviews so that I would be able to explore the different views and experiences on this specific matter, as it is quite easy to have access to people in this particular community, me being a black woman myself.
Focus groups
Due to COVID-19, I had to host my focus groups over the platform Zoom. In the focus groups, I gathered a group of females with some sort of black heritage and some that weren't actually of black heritage but that have grown up around some sort of black culture. I raised topics surrounding self-esteem and colourism. From this, I found that a lot of them (who were of mixed heritage) were aware of it but had not experienced it themselves, although 1 person had experienced colourism. The other black girls in the focus group had all experienced some sort of discrimination due to the colour of their skin.
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