The Impacts of Colorism | Love Your Lineage
LDS Living Podcasts
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5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
What does sunshine have to do with family history? Well, besides helping our plants and vegetables grow, sunshine has a profound effect on our bodies. One of those effects is melanin production. Melanin is a dark pigment in our hair, skin, and iris of the eye that protects us from the sun’s radiation. Tragically, throughout history some have used melanin to create caste systems that determine social status, ultimately affecting our family history. In this episode, Dr. David-James Gonzales discusses how these caste systems and resulting colorism began and the impact they still have on us as we seek to learn more about ourselves and our ancestors.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Michelle. I got a question for you. |
| 0:03.4 | Ask me. What does sunshine have to do with family history? |
| 0:07.8 | That is such a good question because a lot of people would I think sunshine and family history |
| 0:12.4 | go together, but they do. |
| 0:15.6 | And you know, when we think of sunshine, I think of it as like a source to give us energy. |
| 0:20.4 | You know, it helps me feel really warm if I'm outside it helps our plants and |
| 0:24.5 | vegetables and fruits to grow but sunshine also has a great effect on our |
| 0:29.7 | bodies specifically of our skin color. |
| 0:33.4 | I am so excited to talk about this with you today. |
| 0:36.8 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:37.7 | Let's get into it. Let's get into it. You're listening to the Love Your Lineage Podcast by LDS Living, a multifaceted |
| 0:56.4 | shamefree approach to family history. I'm Michelle. And I'm Mia and we want to |
| 1:00.9 | help you find your space and claim your place in your family history story. |
| 1:05.0 | On today's episode we're going to be hitting three major topics. |
| 1:10.0 | We're going to be talking about melanin, colorism, and the caste system. |
| 1:15.0 | If you're like, I don't know what any of those things are. |
| 1:17.0 | Don't worry. |
| 1:18.0 | We have a professor, a doctor here today to talk with us about all these things and help us kind of break these |
| 1:24.2 | down so we can understand how they relate to family history work. |
| 1:28.0 | So I'd like to introduce you guys to Dr. David James Gonzalez that's here today today. Dr Gonzales, welcome. |
| 1:34.6 | Thanks, Michelle Mia, glad to be here. |
| 1:36.4 | What do you prefer to be called? |
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