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She was one of the first Black Americans to gain recognition for film and stage work in the 1920s and 1930s. Washington was active in the Harlem Renaissance (1920s–1930s). Her best- known film role was as Peola in Imitation of Life (1934). She plays a young light-skinned Black woman who decides to pass as white.
Titled "High Yaller", the painting's subject is a light-skinned black woman dressed in bright yellow from head to foot walking down a Harlem street. [ 15 ] The phrase survives in folk songs such as " The Yellow Rose of Texas ", which originally referred to Emily West Morgan , a " mulatto " indentured servant apocryphally associated with the ...
Redbone is a term historically used in much of the southern United States to denote a multiracial individual or culture. Among African Americans the term has been slang for fairer-skinned Black people, often for women specifically or for Black people with red undertones.
Ellen Holly was the first Black actress to star on a daytime television show. She starred as Carla Gray on 'One Life to Live' from 1968 to 1985. Trailblazing actress Ellen Holly of White Plains ...
When black women were enslaved in America, the sexual assault of Black women produced light-skinned children, who were afforded more privileges than their darker skinned mothers although they were seldom acknowledged as legitimate children. [92] Light-skinned black women have more privileges and advantages than dark-skinned black women. [93]
“How It Feels to Be Free” is a documentary, at once sobering and enchanting, that interweaves portraits of six legendary stars, all of them Black women (Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone ...
A study conducted in 2018 by the University of Texas Rio Grande found that lighter-complected Black people were found to be more successful in society than their darker-skinned counterparts ...
For example, light-skinned black women were marketed as "Negroes fit for domestic service" in their masters' homes. [84] In addition to the bag test, the comb test and the door test were also used. [85] The comb test was used to measure the kinkiness of a person's hair. The objective was for the comb to be able to pass through the hair without ...