Light-Skin Privilege: A Checklist

Colourism is the oppression that individuals with a dark skin tone face experience, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group. It is usually steeped in white supremacy, colonialism and the preference for whiteness, both from white people and communities of colour. Within South Asian people in the sub-continent and the diaspora, it is also rooted in caste and the hatred of Dalit and lower-caste people.