COMM 3668 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Brown Paper Bag Test, Social Capital, Claudette Colvin

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 3668
• Professor: Holt Lanier

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Colorism: prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their skinned, tends to privilege light-skinned and disadvantage dark-skinned individuals. Biased attention toward the social concept of race. Race determines traits and capacities: colorism. Biased attention toward the biological feature of skin tone. White slave masters and black female slaves. Willie lynch theory: the best way to keep slaves under control is by exploiting their differences. You must use the dark skin slaves vs. the light skin slaves. Envy stronger than adulation, respect or admiration. Better clothing, job is to wash dishes and prepare food. Were at times offered some kind of education. Would at times receive property as bi-racial kid. More likely to receive freedom: dark-skinned slaves. Would eat s(cid:272)raps like pig"s ear, lefto(cid:448)ers, et(cid:272). Tattered, bad clothes because working in field. Slim to no education, had to sneak it.