Light Skin vs. Dark Skin: How Pop Culture Perpetuates Colorism | READUS 101

Light Skin vs. Dark Skin: How Pop Culture Perpetuates Colorism | Thanks to cultural imperialism, white supremacy is the reason behind colorism, internalized racism and self-esteem issues existing in African American communities to the need of social justice reform. And thanks to Hollywood's colorism playing a hand in linking lighter-skinned individuals to perceptions of beauty and worth, the type of representation that popular culture dishes out can really be seen in media portrayals of African Americans around the world.

References & Resources
   • James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni "A C...  

   • Tall, Dark and Racially Ambiguous   by ‪@Princess_Weekes‬

The Color Fetish
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-...

Shades of Prejudice
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/op...

Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History by Robert L. Allen
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   • What Koreans Think Of Black Panther |...  

Successful Black Men and White Women
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The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow by Gabriel Banat

His name is Joseph Boulogne, Not "Black Mozart"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/ar...

Racial Ambiguity: Beyond the Checkboxes
https://scotscoop.com/racial-ambiguit...

What is Racial Ambiguity?
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-...

Interview with Neal Adams
https://www.boldoutlaw.com/greenarrow...

Tarantino is Wrong - Hollywood Would be Nothing Without British Actors
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/q...

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00:00 Introduction
05:07 Tall, Dark & Fetishized
13:00 The Social Science of Skin Tone
24:27 The Ambiguous Excuse
39:31 In Lightest Day...
52:22 Conclusion

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