Search results
27 lut 2017 · This article examines how skin color stratification, termed “colorism,” affects the psychological well-being of African American women. Previous research has shown that the experience of colorism is pervasive within the black community and that black women have been culturally or personally affected by intraracial discrimination.
4 sty 2021 · While studies conflict over whether Black women prefer lighter-skinned Black men, all of the recent studies find that dark-skinned Black women are consistently passed over for marriage by middle- to high-status Black males. 31 In fact, studies show that darker-skinned Black women tend to marry spouses with a full year less education than ...
25 cze 2024 · Marriage and Social Mobility: A study published in the journal Demography in 2011 found that lighter-skinned black women are more likely to marry spouses with higher socioeconomic status, which...
14 lut 2024 · In 2009, a study found that for women under 30, lighter-skinned Black women were married at twice the rate of their darker-skinned counterparts and 17 percent more than Black women with medium ...
Colorism, or skin color stratification, is a process that privileges light-skinned people of color over dark in areas such as income, education, housing, and the marriage market. This essay describes the experiences of African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans with regard to skin color.
In this large sample of young African-American women in a predominantly African-American setting, we found little evidence of light-skin disadvantage. However, dark skin disadvantage was apparent in all domains even after adjustment for SES.
Taken together, these findings suggest that light skin structures access to resources and exposures to health risks that shape broad indicators of physical well-being among black women in ways that it does not for black men.
