Ok so I'm pretty darkskinned (like a little darker than you) and I was wondering where you think the line is drawn between those who have light skin privilege and those who don't. Because there are so many different shades between like Rhianna and Lupita you know?
Light Skin privilege is for anyone the complexion of a brown paper bag and lighter. That’s how they use to PHYSICALLY test for benefits and privilege in the early 1900s by different “Upper Class” Black societies.
I DO NOT KNOW HOW TRUE THIS IS!!! I’ve always heard of rumors about Black sororities/colleges and the Brown Paper Bag test back in the day. It was said that girls lighter than a Brown Paper Bag would be AKAs and girls darker would be Deltas. I’ve always heard that AKA was the “light skin sorority”, back in the day. HBCUs even at one point supposedly used this test for acceptance.
Paper Bag Parties were a thing from the early 1900s used to control access into churches, nightclubs and social events. Creoles in Louisiana “used” to use the brown paper bag test to determine which Blacks amongst their neighborhood had more African descendants in their background. They isolated themselves from those they felt were “more African”.
The first 5 on the top row would have privilege in the physical paper bag era.
As gorgeous as these women are, they would have been denied access to certain things in the era of the Upper Class Black societies (1900-1950)
The paper bag test is still very much a thing, they just don’t do it physically by holding a bag to your face. It’s in casting calls, TV shows, music and of course Hollywood.
If you would like to see a creative POV on colorism/paper brown test, I highly recommend watching School Daze.
School Daze touches on colorism by exploring why certain men only date dark skinned women as well as how dark skin and light skin women perceive one another.
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