Dark Skin Research Paper

This even goes back to slavery times when they had the lighter skin slaves work in the house and the darker one’s work outside. Slave masters did this on purpose to make one feel more superior than the other. Then it creates some type of division between the two and then they begin to envy one another. Not only is it happening in America but even in Africa and other countries as well. We have been brainwashed into believing that if your skin is lighter then you 're more socially acceptable. The brainwashing begins when we are children and we don 't even know it 's happening, that 's the sad part. Even with social media we constantly antagonize each other because the color of our skin. We make fun of each other for something that we cannot change …show more content…
We still have the same types of stereotypes today but it is not as prevalent as it was in the 50s and 60s. Even in the 90s they would glorify being light skin as the ideal beauty in the African-American community. It was very prevalent in movies, television shows, and even in music especially hip-hop and R&B. What amazes me is that if a man is dark skin he is seen as manlier, but if an African-American woman is darker skin she isn 't seen as beautiful. How could we promote one thing and do the complete opposite to our African-American women. "The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice. This saying, unlike many others, promises in even sweeter inside for a person with dark brown skin and suggests that darker skin is actually more desirable than light." Women are starting to embrace their darker skin and see it as beauty. Of course we still have some insecure people that bleach their skin in order to simulate to this ideal beauty. It blows my mind that people will go through all this trouble to look like what they feel is beautiful instead of embracing what they have. I see more people now embracing their darker skin and natural hair. As we progress in time the color barrier between the two skin tone have progressed but there is still some in balance. It 's more so humorous nowadays but I feel like there 's still some underlying truth through these …show more content…
That shows them more assimilating to the American culture by straining their hair and putting relaxer in it so they look more European American. Then the 70s rolls around and we have people embracing their African culture and dressing differently. We see them start to dress very differently and rock there afro. Also the black power movement began around that time and people started to embrace their African American side more. This started the black power movement which was later called the Black Panther movement. "When the Panthers came forward, the idea of trying to get some of our people back from the other side of capitalism came up, so some of us talked about needing to form a group like that. With the Panthers as a model, we can serve the people." Around that time and didn 't matter what shade of color you were because in everyone else 's eyes you were African-American. This era brings our community together as far as the skin tone barrier. I 'm sure that they did antagonize each other but it was more of a brother we kind of ridicule versus deep down hatred towards one another. In that era, it was all about us against them, in a way it kind of united us as a race and those that believed in the cause of stopping racism in America. We are still battling with that till this day with all the police brutality that is going on. You would