| Contemporary writers of color are now weaving the legacy of colorism into their fiction and nonfiction stories, Ms. Golden said. |
| 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. |
| Thus whiteness distances Lynda from colorism and racism but also from her family and culture. |
| Intracommunity differences, such as colorism and class elitism, can be overcome. |
| Colorism is an intraracial problem as well as an interracial problem. |
| Paradise builds on West's critique, exploring colorism, elitism, and patriarchy as structures that compose the black bourgeois ideal. |
