| If colourism is what allowed black folk to hold on to their dignity, Bride was never going to be allowed any. |
| Colourism refers to discrimination based on skin colour. |
| That skin‑bleaching cosmetics have persisted for decades signals the enduring legacy of colourism. |
| After the Second World War, they dominated in art schools, and the aesthetic doctrine of colourism turned out to be one of the more influential and long lasting. |
| Indeed, the logic that the painter has attributed to the colours, by keeping them in their truth and pigment authenticity with the world, as the colours of the world, make abstract colourism Morandini's archetype. |
| This article looks at the roots of colourism and how it has impacted the interaction of dark-skinned women with light-skinned women. |
