| Paradise builds on West's critique, exploring colorism, elitism, and patriarchy as structures that compose the black bourgeois ideal. |
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| Intracommunity differences, such as colorism and class elitism, can be overcome. |
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| The various stories thematize issues of colorism, marital betrayal, family strife, and poverty. |
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| Thus whiteness distances Lynda from colorism and racism but also from her family and culture. |
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| The subdued homoeroticism of Alfred Kolig's drawings and paintings is secondary to his exquisite draftsmanship and sensual colorism. |
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| Personal relationships fractured by colorism are emblematic of the distorted relations that prevail in societies governed by racialized ideologies. |
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| Contemporary writers of color are now weaving the legacy of colorism into their fiction and nonfiction stories, Ms. Golden said. |
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| But the proposed choice of Ms. Saldana to play Simone has reignited the conversation of colorism — Alice Walker's term for discrimination based on gradations of skin color. |
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| Colorism is an intraracial problem as well as an interracial problem. |
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| Colorism is a significant arbiter of intraracial class division. |
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