Colorism: The Politics of Skin Tone and How We Get Free

The essential primer on colorism, and how each of us has a role in dismantling skin tone bias.

Racism is easy to spot these days; we know its script, its favorite media tropes, its legislative tactics, and how it makes us feel. But there is another societal ill hiding in racism’s shadow: colorism. Colorism is a social hierarchy that favors people with lighter skin tones and stigmatizes people with darker skin tones. More than a debate on social media about who’s most attractive, colorism ...