While it is true that all African Americans face significant discrimination, all African Americans do not face the same level or type of discrimination. Indeed, results from rigorous social science analyses reveal a powerful effect of skin tone that is independent of the powerful effect of race. For example, research in economics has shown that the wage gap between lighter- and darker-skinned African Americans is nearly as large as the gap between African Americans and whites. In our analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we found that the darkest-skinned African American girls were three times more likely to be suspended at school than their lighter-skinned counterparts — a disparity that is again roughly equal to the gap between blacks and whites. ...Additionally, new results from the American National Election Studies more directly illustrate the degree of skin tone prejudice by whites. Those data indicate that white interviewers are several times more likely to judge an African American they see as light skinned to be above average in intelligence, regardless of that African American’s educational credentials.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:38:43 +0000
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