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High yellow, occasionally simply yellow (dialect: yaller, yella), is a term used to describe a light-skinned black person . It is also used as a slang for those thought to have "yellow undertones". [1] The term was in common use in the United States at the end of the 19th century and the mid 20th century.
In the film The 6th Man (1997), R.C. St John (played by Michael Michele), in reference to her light colored skin. In the Netflix series Master of None (2015), Denise (played by Lena Waithe) uses the term to refer to a light skinned black person.
An assessment of racism in Trinidad notes people often being described by their skin tone, with the gradations being "HIGH RED – part White, part Black but 'clearer' than Brown-skin: HIGH BROWN – More white than Black, light skinned: DOUGLA – part Indian and part Black: LIGHT SKINNED, or CLEAR SKINNED Some Black, but more White: TRINI ...
Casting Smith, a light-skinned Black man, has already stirred conversation and controversy, given the role that colorism has often played in discussions about race.
Humans with light skin pigmentation have skin with low amounts of eumelanin, and possess fewer melanosomes than humans with dark skin pigmentation. Light skin provides better absorption qualities of ultraviolet radiation, which helps the body to synthesize higher amounts of vitamin D for bodily processes such as calcium development.
“It was always light-skinned Black people who seemed to get all the attention."View Entire Post ›
Lizano is described by police as a light skin Black man with long dreadlocks, a beard and mustache, who left the Waffle House early Friday, wearing a dark blue pull-over hoodie, blue jeans and ...
Jeremy Ray Meeks (born February 7, 1984) [1] is an American fashion model, actor, and convicted felon.A former member of the Crips street gang, Meeks was arrested in 2014 during a gang sweep called Operation Ceasefire in Stockton, California. [2]