A Bias More Than Skin Deep - The New York Times:
Blackness was denigrated in direct proportion to the degree that whiteness was preferred or valued as supreme. And on top of this issue of race as defined by color, there is an overlay of gender. In particular, how do women with darker skin fit this paradigm in a culture and world that seem to reflexively conflate lighter-skinned not only with beauty but often with femininity itself?
I was reminded of this earlier this month when The Washington Post reported on a study about the popularity of multiracial people among online daters.
But even in this openness, there persisted a pro-white/anti-black bias
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