I recenyly stumbled upon this amazing documentary on the emphasis on skin color amongst many people of color groups. Not just peoples of African descent but varying Asian and Hispanic groups. It was a unique analysis of the general ideals of outer beauty as it relates to colorism, colonialism, social structures and familial influences. It follows a group of young women struggling to understand and analyze the "lighter is better stigma" amongst the very groups they are born to. I'm the lightest of my sisters and I have always noticed how I was consistently considered the beauty of the family and watched my sisters struggle with defining and owning their own standards of what is beautiful. Please Check it out:


Shadeism: Digging Deeper (Trailer) from refuge productions on Vimeo.
Shadeism from Shadeism on Vimeo.

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