Exam 6: Colorism and Skin-Color Stratification

By the end of the colonial period in Latin America, how many possible categories were memorialized in a series of casta paintings? Please name and describe at least two (2).

Anthropologist Peter Frost (2006) after reviewing evidence found some evidence that a preference for lighter skin:

The dispersion of people from their original homeland is called the:

Most of the enslaved Africans who first arrived where dark-skinned. Soon after, there became a mixture of Black and White people called:

What does studying skin tone matter in school suspension?

What did the actress, in a 2016 commercial from Thailand for skin-whitening pills called Snowz, say was the secret to her success?

In Brazil, the census classifies people as:

What did Kaitlyn Greenidge share about "the toxic legacy of colorism?"

The idea that having any amount of Black ancestry makes you Black is called:

In Indian and Indonesian texts, beautiful women are described as having:

In India, in what way is the preference for light skin also connected to the caste system?

How did colorism play out during the era of slavery?

In Latin America, who is typically at the bottom of the skin hierarchy?

Scholars who believe that colorism stems from the history of slavery and genocide in the Americas, fundamentally believe that preference for light skin is:

In the opening story, bell hooks described young rituals for so many young, Black girls. What does she mean by "good hair" and what does she know now that she didn't know then?