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Examples Of Colorism Within The Black Community

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Colorism Within the Black Community Within the African-American community there is an internalized racism that is based on ones coloring of the individual’s skin. The stereotypes relating to their own group. It is the conscious and unconscious acceptance of a racial hierarchy in which whites are consistently ranked African-Americans bases on the form of colorization leading to a racist hierarchy that privileges lighter skinned black people over darker skinned black people within their own communities. In Michell Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven character Boy once in America finds it easy to assimilate into white society and finds out that it has benefits by portraying himself as a white male. In Jamaica the color of one’s skin was not an
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