Light Skin Vs Dark Skin

June 24 2013 4 02 pm by c.

Light skin vs dark skin. I ve noticed that many of the african american female models and celebrities such as beyonce used in advertisements sometimes are made to appear lighter than they actually are. On the other hand as reid himself suggested barack obama was the preferable choice if an african. It autocorrects on one s computer. This type of classification is the general definition of colorism hunter 2002.

Would it offend you to see a dark skinned person in an ad. Continued sometimes brown skin blacks and older dark skin blacks date light skin blacks in philadelphia more brown skin blacks than dark skin black young adults date light skin blacks in philly. Considering the findings of hughes. Documentary exploring the deep seated biases and attitudes about skin color particularly dark skinned women outside of and within the black american culture.

To be fair my classmate tekima johnson and i did a poll on twitter asking men about their preference light skinned or dark skinned women we also discussed the topic with a group of men in person. I live in new mexico where white people are actually. Channsin berry bill duke. The twitter poll results showed 25 of the men preferred light skinned women and 75 preferred dark skinned with a total of 36 votes.

Dark skin john d from chicago said. Diane june 27 2009 at 03 35 am. Dark skinned slaves working in the field hated the light skin slaves working in the master s house because of the fact that he chose to spoil their lighter counterparts. Race and skin color is a very strange thing to me.

The funny thing is the word colorism doesn t even exist. Dark skin and a certain way of speaking most often equals ghetto and is therefore unacceptable. With soren baker ronald boutelle joni bovill kirk bovill. Light skin privilege the issue of colourism was reignited recently after maya jama addressed the controversy over a joke she tweeted in 2012 which mocked dark skinned women.