Very light skinned black women

Much of the common discourse around skin color politics in the United States of America and the African Diaspora more broadly focuses on the ways in which light skinned Black people are privileged by the patriarchal white supremacist system of racial hierarchy. This discourse often highlights the ways in which dark skinned Black people have systematically been disenfranchised by these institutional models of access that limit understandings of Black humanity. The histories of global colonization, both physical and mental, have evidently left behind remnants of internalized beliefs that linger within Black communal spaces, especially when considering the ways in which the intersection of race and gender complicate the discussion. While the prevalent scholarship on colorism highlights the dichotomy between dark and light skinned people by highlighting dark skinned people's exclusion from a privileged positionality within Blackness, this project is interested in expanding the conversation to reveal the nuanced challenges faced by those seen as most privileged within Black communities. It is anthropological in methodology utilizes qualitative research tools within the ethnographic tradition to broadly engage the following questions - How have light skinned Black women in the United States of America experienced their Black womanhood within the context of Black communal spaces?

Keke Palmer is many things, among them an actor, an Emmy Award winner, and a meme queen. She has been acting since she was a child, starring in 's Akeelah and the Bee and Nickelodeon's True Jackson, VP, which ran from to Over the weekend her rise from child star to certified A-list was the subject of a tweet comparing Palmer's popularity with that of Zendaya. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.

Keke Palmer addressed a tweet over the weekend that compared her to fellow actress Zendaya and ignited a discussion over her career and popularity. On Saturday, Aiyana N. Ishmael, an editorial assistant at Teen Vogue, tweeted her confusion over remarks about Palmer's "breakout" success in "Nope," Jordan Peele's latest directorial venture. Another Twitter user then quoted Ishmael's tweet, writing , "I'd like someone to do a deep-drive on the similarities and differences between Keke Palmer and Zendaya's careers.

The issue of colourism is something that she clearly considers and is perhaps even more vocal about compared to some of her peers. This may be one of the clearest examples of how colourism plays out in Hollywood. I do believe that the aforementioned tweet and others with a similar narrative had good intentions at their heart — to give Keke her flowers and have her talents recognised on a widespread scale.