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**Trigger warning for colorism, racism, privilege denial, self-harming**

Dark Girls Trailer

This documentary trailer gives perhaps a better view of colorism than Wikipedia. I also recommend the original blogpost I saw it on, which contains similarly grim details of the phenomenon which are similarly triggering.

Again, this is via theartfulodger.

Source: mikkikendall.wordpress.com

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Colorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Colorism is prejudice or discrimination in which human beings are accorded differing social treatment based on skin color. The preference often gets translated into economic status because of opportunities for work. Colorism can be found across the world. The term is generally used for the phenomenon of people discriminating within their own ethnic groups.

The term colorism refers to when lighter skin tones are preferred and darker skin is considered less desirable or darker skin tones are preferred and lighter skin is considered less desirable. In the United States, the phenomenon also occurs in other populations, such as among Chicanos and other Latinos, Indian immigrants and Caucasian Americans.

The name pigmentocracy is given to a group-based social hierarchy based largely on colorism. Also labeled as colorism, which is more discussed than others, is the phenomenon of lighter-skinned people discriminating against darker tones within the same ethnic group.

Wikipedia may not be the best source, but I was unaware of colorism until shown to me by theartfulodger. I felt the need to pass the term on to others who are unaware of it, especially white people whose privilege separates them from the experience of marginalised races.

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