Kathy Russell

The author in this text uncover the history and implications of color (as in skintone) in American society and among black folk in particular. It is well resourced by the chapter and covers a variety of mediums where colorism manifests. My knock against this text is that I feel in the authors' attempt to discuss colorism as a discrete thing I find they decouple it from and thus obscure the overlap between colorism and racism and the implication of colonialism and imperialism in exporting and reinforcing colorstruck values. Given the focus on colorism as it occurs intraracially and the individual experience of being dark skinned or light skinned as opposed to colorism in terms of a person viewing a racial outsider this can be forgiven.… (más)