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\"The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams--a slave girl who looked 'white'--whose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement. When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family's freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. During a sold-out abolitionist lecture series, Senator Charles Sumner paraded Mary in front of rapt audiences as evidence that slavery knew no bounds. Weaving together long-overlooked primary sources and arresting images, including the daguerreotype that turned Mary into the poster child of a movement, Jessie Morgan-Owens investigates tangled generations of sexual enslavement and the fraught politics that led Mary to Sumner. She restores Mary's story to history and uncovers a dramatic narrative of travels along the Underground Railroad, relationships tested by oppression, and the struggles of life after emancipation. The result is an exposâe of the thorny racial politics of the abolitionist movement and the pervasive colorism that dictated where white sympathy lay--one that sheds light on a shameful legacy that still affects us profoundly today\"-- Provided by publisher.

We examine a vast, interdisciplinary, and increasingly global literature concerning skin color and colorism, which are related to status throughout the world. The vast majority of research has investigated Western societies, where color and colorism have been closely related to race and racism. In Latin America, the two sets of concepts have particularly overlapped. In the rest of the world, particularly in Asia, color and colorism have also been important but have evolved separately from the relatively new concepts of race and racism. In recent years, however, color consciousness and white supremacy appear to have been increasingly united, globalized, and commodified, as exemplified by the global multibillion-dollar skin-lightening industry. Finally, we document the growing methodological attention to measurements of skin color and social science data that incorporate skin color measures.

This study uses nationally representative data to extend a steadily growing body of research on the health consequences of skin color by comparatively examining the consequences of perceived ingroup and outgroup skin color discrimination (perceived colorism) for physical health among African Americans. Using a comprehensive set of measures of physical health, I find that perceived ingroup colorism is significantly associated with worse physical health outcomes among African Americans. Notably, the magnitude of ingroup colorism’s associations with most of these outcomes rivals or even exceeds that of major lifetime discrimination, everyday discrimination, and perceived outgroup colorism. These findings compellingly suggest the inclusion of perceived colorism measures in future survey data collection efforts.

East Asian colorism refers to the favoring of lighter skin tones due to historical roots related to manual labor and social classes. This may influence the skincare behavior of people in modern society, particularly adolescents, who are vulnerable to social pressure. By conducting a Bayesian analysis aided by Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms on data from 11,926 middle-school students in China, we found that the use of skin-whitening products was positively associated with self-perception of lighter skin, being a girl, feeling that one's skin tone was not attractive enough, constantly being evaluated about one's skin tone, and observations of unfair treatment due to skin tone (including both negative bias toward darker skin and positive bias toward lighter skin). These findings provide practical guidance for policy making and educational and marketing approaches regarding adolescent health and skincare.

Despite the growing body of literature on international students and foreign teachers in China, research on the transition of international students from the Global South into English-teaching roles remains limited. This study fills this gap by exploring international students’ experiences of their transition from being international students to being foreign teachers. Five international graduates working as foreign English teachers in China were interviewed using a qualitative case study approach. The key findings of the study revealed that international students’ key motivations for remaining in China are driven by economic opportunity, cultural exposure, and community inclusion, while systemic challenges, such as job instability, language barriers, excessive workload, and wage disparities rooted in colorism, are also highlighted. The originality of this study lies in its focus on marginalized foreign teachers labeled waiguoren, whose experiences are often shaped by racialized labor segmentation and neoliberal educational market exploitation.

The third force in the field of psychology is associated with the work of Carl Rogers. His work is grounded in subjective experience per congruence/incongruence. Rogers’ subjective experience referred to as phenomenology is critical in defining client reality. Access to client reality per subjective experience of colorism is the objective of Q sort measure. Colorism is a dominant experience in the perception of congruent reality for people of color who must assimilate into a dominant Eurocentric environmental context. The EBP protocol may be measured per client’s subjective concept of environment input by application of a Q sort method in the assessment of skin color. Hall’s Q sort mathematical equation was designed by the author to organize the steps for Q sort calculation in a manner that insures the proper mathematical calculations. Mainstream practitioners informed of this equation will assume the competence necessary to conduct therapy with people of color.

Colorism literature examines how skin tone—alongside prototypical group features and hairstyles—correlates with socioeconomic, health, and political outcomes. Yet few studies have explicitly operationalized how skin tone shapes Latinos’ experiences of racialization in “new” U.S. destinations. Here, we draw on a large, representative sample of Mexican immigrants (N = 500) living in two large metropolitan areas (Atlanta and Philadelphia) to investigate how skin tone shapes their perceptions about the frequency and sources of discrimination. Even after controlling for demographic, economic, and immigration-specific factors, including ethnoracial self-identification, we show darker skin tone is significantly associated with higher reports of racial discrimination, discrimination specifically from U.S.-born Whites, and a stronger tendency to struggle internally in response. Together, these results support colorism literature’s argument that skin tone is distinct from race and offer new insights into how skin tone shapes the lived experiences of Mexican immigrants outside the U.S. Southwest.

In this article, based on studies, readings, and discussions at collective supervisory meetings among the authors, we discuss reflections that are preliminary to the realization of a study about the parda or light-skinned Black population, and the theme of “pardismo” in Brazilian society. We reflect on the processes of invisibilization of Blackness based on the ambiguity of phenotypic traits. Like all oppressions that operate in colonial Western society, the symbolic violence of deracialization, combined with gendered oppressions, can have significant psychosocial effects on people who occupy non-hegemonic gender positions. Focusing on Black women with light-skin, we consider how the denial of racial identity affects processes of subjectivation of these women in a society marked by coloniality. We also discuss how the concept of “colorism” can be adapted to Brazilian reality. Neste artigo, baseado em estudos, leituras e discussões ocorridas em reuniões de orientação coletiva entre as autoras, trazemos reflexões preliminares à realização de pesquisa sobre a população parda e o tema do “pardismo” na sociedade brasileira. Buscamos refletir a respeito dos processos de invisibilização da negritude com base na ambiguidade de traços fenotípicos. Como todas as opressões que operam na sociedade ocidental colonial, a violência simbólica da desracialização, combinada com as opressões de gênero, pode provocar efeitos psicossociais significativos em pessoas que ocupam posições de gênero não hegemônicas. Com foco em mulheres negras de pele clara, procuramos refletir sobre as formas como a negação da identidade racial incide sobre os processos de subjetivação dessas mulheres em uma sociedade marcada pela colonialidade. Refletimos ainda sobre a adequação do conceito de “colorismo” à realidade brasileira. Este artículo, basado en estudios, lecturas y discusiones que tuvieron lugar en reuniones de orientación colectiva entre las autoras, trae reflexiones preliminares para la realización de investigación sobre la población negra de piel clara y el tema del “pardismo” en la sociedad brasileña. En tal sentido se procura reflexionar sobre los procesos de invisibilización de la negritud a partir de la ambigüedad de los rasgos fenotípicos. Como todas las opresiones que operan en la sociedad occidental colonial, la violencia simbólica de la desracialización, combinada con las opresiones de género, puede tener efectos psicosociales significativos en las personas que ocupan posiciones de género no hegemónicas. Centrándose en las mujeres negras de piel clara, el texto busca reflexionar sobre las formas en que la negación de la identidad racial afecta los procesos de subjetivación de estas mujeres en una sociedad marcada por la colonialidad. El artículo también reflexiona sobre la adecuación del concepto de “colorismo” a la realidad brasileña.

This study addresses two questions. First, why do Black Americans exhibit worse health outcomes than White Americans even at higher levels of socioeconomic status (SES)? Second, are diminished health returns to higher status concentrated among Black Americans with darker skin color? Novel hypotheses are tested with biosocial panel data from Add Health, a nationally representative cohort of Black and White adolescents who have transitioned to adulthood. We find that White and light-skin Black respondents report improved health after achieving higher SES, on average, while their darker-skin Black peers report declining health. These patterns persist regardless of controls for adolescent health status and unmeasured between-person heterogeneity. Moreover, increased inflammation tied to unfair treatment and perceptions of lower status helps to account for patterns of diminished health returns for dark-skin Black groups. Our study is the first to document skin tone heterogeneity in diminished health returns and one of few studies to identify life course stress processes underlying such disparities. We consider additional processes that could be examined in future studies, as well as the broader health and policy implications of our findings.

In an exploration of colorist biases across native Melanesian participants, we employed a multi-method approach across three studies to examine evaluative and perceptual processing of ‘lighter’ and ‘darker’ non-Melanesian facial targets controlled for attractiveness, sex, and ethnicity. In Study 1, 305 participants evaluated facial attractiveness using surveys. In Study 2, 153 participants alternately mapped lighter and darker faces with positive and neutral attributes across brief Implicit Association Tests. In Study 3, 61 participants underwent a manual sorting task followed by a ’breaking’ continuous flash suppression ( b -CFS) paradigm to probe ’non-conscious’ perceptual biases. Across evaluative measures, male and female respondents consistently preferred lighter-skinned, highly attractive male faces. During b -CFS, lighter and attractive opposite-sex faces entered awareness (‘broke suppression’) faster than their darker counterparts. We speculate that skin tone may operate as a perceptually salient cue in the presence of facial configurations signaling high reproductive potential.