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Title: The Color Complex by Ph.D. Midge Wilson, Ronald Hall, Kathy Russell ISBN: 0-385-47161-0 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting
Comment: I knew that there was discrimination between blacks. I'm a dark-skinned black man and having grown up mostly around medium to dark skinned blacks I've seen light-skinned blacks teased and made to feel inferior by us because of their white heritage on a regular basis. People would be friends with them but people's hatred of them because of them being mixed always lingered in the back of someone's mind. One thing I found interesting was how in the book they told of how in the early 1900's up until the 50's, light-skinned blacks formed their own organizations and excluded dark-skinned blacks. I've never experienced discrimination from light-skinned blacks so I never knew that they'd done those things. One thing that I didn't like about the book though was how they presently applied the one-drop rule to determine if someone was black. If someone is light enough to pass for white then they are basically white. These aren't the slave days where the one-drop rule will divide up property. I agree with one of the people they interviewed in the book who said that if someone is genetically more white than black then they should be considered passing for black and not passing for white. Growing up the way that I did I don't consider half-white people completely black and especially someone who has only one black grandparent but who's parents and other grandparent are white. No matter how much they want to be black and deny their white heritage as I have often seen, they will never be considered black by many of us. Overall the book was very good because they did a lot of research and were able to cite different instances of color discrimination between blacks. I would recommend this book for anyone who thinks that discrimination is nonexistant especially within the black community.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow....
Comment: This book was excellent and clearly showed just how absurd racism can make people. It was disturbing* as a black person myself* to read about how people used to negate each other that badly. It changed my perception of a lot of things. I recommend this book to EVERYONE. It pointed out so many things that I didn't twice about and I wish I could have found it sooner.
Rating: 4
Summary: ALL BLACK PPL ARE MIXED
Comment: I love this book and how it highlights how some of my beloved brothers and sisters discriminate against each other, as if we don't have it bad enough in America. I find such ignorance quite sad. I'm a medium brown complected sister myself and never endured the cruelty that I saw my darker or lighter skinned friends suffer through. If you are dark, you were told you were ugly or "too black". If you are light, you were told you were gorgeous or "not black enough". All of this self-hatred and ignorance is the legacy of slavery as the book points out. That old "divide and conquer" strategy is still working in our community.
Also, if you have African ancestry, you are black. I don't care if you're fair as Mariah Carey or if you're dark as Wesley Snipes, you are black and beautiful and you should be proud. Even if you only have one distant black ancestor, that still makes you black in America. There is no such thing as HALF-BLACK OR HALF-WHITE, just as there are no people who can claim to be 100 percent black. I have distant white, native american and hispanic ancestors but that still makes me black. We are all "mixed" thanks to slavery and African colonization. Yes, even Africans are "mixed". Why do you think Somalians look the way they do? Italian colonization, that's why. Read up on your rich black history people.
My bottom line, black is black is black is BLACK. Your shade of blackness or number of black ancestors does not change that fact. If we could all realize this and work TOGETHER, we could make even more progress in this racist society we live in.
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Title: BLACKER THE BERRY. . . by Wallace Thurman ISBN: 068481580X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham ISBN: 0060984384 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Racist America: Roots, Current Realities and Future Reparations by Joe R. Feagin ISBN: 0415925320 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 30 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois ISBN: 0486280411 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 20 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: The BAP Handbook : The Official Guide to the Black American Princess by Kalyn Johnson, Tracey Lewis, Karla Lightfoot, Ginger Wilson ISBN: 0767905504 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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