Topic > Evolution and influence of mixed-race demographics in…

Racial profiling within the media can be seen and directed at all races and ethnicities. However, there are many common ideologies that specifically target mixed-race individuals that are significant in how ironic they are in demonstrating the repressive and regressive ideologies within our society, through a group that is supposed to represent the opposite. Some of these ideologies are that of the "dark skin versus light skin complex" and the importance of using physical characteristics to determine ethnicity/character. Since the color controversy that has emerged within the media, such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, in order to establish beauty standards based on skin color, the dispute between light skin and dark skin is evidently based on the remnants of the racist hierarchy that it once existed and was thought to have been abolished in Canada (Adekunle & Williams, 2010; “Light Skin Vs. Dark,” 2014; “Mixed Race,” n.d.; Pears, 2013). Surprisingly, the most prominent group of individuals on the light-skin side would be mixed-race people, who by initiating this debate are promoting what the cultural unison of their existence had begun to remove (Adekunle & Williams, 2010; “Light Skin Vs. Dark", 2014; "Mixed