Colorism and its Impact on Social Work in India: Employing Hall’s Q-Sort Protocol as a Diagnostic Strategy

Colorism is a sustained transgression in India over an extended period of time. As defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, colorism is discrimination within a racial or ethnic group. It is manifested as bias favoring people with lighter skin at the expense of those with darker skin. In fact, colorism is merely melanin-based discrimination. In the aftermath of minimal colorism research, India’s society at-large is apt to exercise colorism in the conduct of critical life choices that must be eliminated for the benefit of social work clientele and Indian society at-large. The suggested strategy is Hall’s Q sort diagnostic protocol. The Q sort mathematical equation significantly reduces verbiage conveying the same information in eight selected characters. In the aftermath said protocol will prevail in the rescue of social work clientele from their colorism pathologies and successfully confront critics such as Etzioni who challenge social work’s professional integrity as a semi-profession.