Cultural whitening, mobility and differentiation: Lived experiences of Filipina wives to white men

• Main Author: Arnado, Janet M.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Skin—Bleaching—Social aspects; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Interracial marriage; Postcolonialism; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1972
• Institution: De La Salle University

Colonial history, racialisation in the global scene, and colorism within the Philippines compel Filipinos to whiten. This article broadens the conception of whitening based on skin bleaching by introducing the notion of Filipino ‘cultural whitening’ and examining its consequences on social mobility...