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Article: The skin color paradox and the American racial order.(Report)
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- Social Forces
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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What is really crucial behind the color point is class; the implication that light color goes with higher status and the Negroid appearance with lower status, is what makes these characteristics so important.
A. Davis et al. 1946:137
So I sit here as a light skin Black woman and I sit here to tell you that I am Black. That people who are my color in this country will always be treated as Black.... We who are Black have got to say "look, we are people of color, and we are readily identified. Any discrimination against one of us is discrimination against another." Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton 1997:260
Well-to-do, fair-skinned kids in the ...