Often referred to as “the last taboo among African Americans community” (Hall, 1992), colorism is a practice deeply rooted in slavery. It became a common practice that darker -skinned blacks were assigned to field work, while light-skinned blacks were supposed to do house chores. It stems from that fact that it was believed that “Caucasian features relate to a higher level of personal and intellectual capacities” (Łobodziec, 2012: 35). Another researcher, Ozzie L. Edwards, aims at presenting that skin color generates disparity in the income of the lighter and darker skinned African Americans (Edwards, 1973). It has been proved that, for the same job, lighter skinned African Americans earn more money than darker skinned African Americans. Apart
