LaWanda M. Simpkins, Ph.D. is an independent scholar and founder of Creative Justice, Inc., a non-profit organization centered on social justice and advocacy. She received her PhD and certificate in Women’s & Gender Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a proud alumna of North Carolina A&T State University

• Down with Fraggle Rock: Freckles, Red Hair, and Stones – There’s Nobody New under the Sun: Some Are Told They Can Play Outside and Some Are Warned Against It – Tales of a Melanated Sistah: Journaling through Colorism – You Can’t Stay in the Past So How Do We Move Forward: Education as a Form of Liberation – Conclusion – Bibliography – Index.

In Double Dutching In My Own Skin: A Soulful Narrative on Colorism, Dr. LaWanda Simpkins takes us on a powerful, storied journey through her lived experience as a light-skinned Black woman. From her lens - one often considered one of color privilege - she asks the important question, "Can a person be privileged for the same identity that they are oppressed for?" and gets our heads spinning in search of the answer. This thought-provoking autoethnographic exploration is empowering, sincere, brilliant, and a necessary contribution to the Colorism lexicon. —Dawn N. Hicks Tafari, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education, Winston-Salem State UniversityAuthor of “Whose World is This?”: A Composite Counterstory of Black Male Elementary School Teachers as Hip-Hop Otherfathers