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Dark Girls' Documentary Exposes Skin-Color Bias
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The upcoming documentary Dark Girls explores the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color that are experienced particularly by dark-skinned women, outside of and within African-American culture.
While the issue certainly isn't brand new, this approach appears to be. Colorism traditionally arises in an adversarial fashion: Someone accuses someone else (a director, a magazine editor, perhaps all of Hollywood) of embracing unfair standards of beauty that exclude many black women. (Just today, Osama bin Laden's former mistress Kola Boof took to Twitter to attack rapper Wale for perpetuating dominant standards of beauty in his music video for "Pretty Girls," calling him self-loathing.)
But Dark Girls seems to take a different angle. Rather than vilifying the perpetrators of bias, the preview shows women being allowed to tell their own stories in a manner that sends an undeniable message about how nonsensical, painful and historically fraught our stubborn views of skin color and beauty can be.
Read some excerpts from the interviews in the film (produced by Bill Duke for Duke Media and D. Channsin Berry for Urban Winter Entertainment, co-produced by Bradinn French and edited by Bradinn French) and watch the preview below.
"I can remember being in the bathtub asking my mom to put bleach in the water so that my skin would be lighter and so that I could escape the feelings I had about not being as beautiful, as acceptable, as lovable."
"She's pretty for a dark-skinned girl ... What is that supposed to mean?"
"They used to say, 'You stayed in the oven too long.' "
"It was so damaging ... it made it seem like we weren't wanted; that we were less than."
"The racism that we have a people amongst ourselves is a direct backlash of slavery."
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The upcoming documentary Dark Girls explores the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color that are experienced particularly by dark-skinned women, outside of and within African-American culture.
While the issue certainly isn't brand new, this approach appears to be. Colorism traditionally arises in an adversarial fashion: Someone accuses someone else (a director, a magazine editor, perhaps all of Hollywood) of embracing unfair standards of beauty that exclude many black women. (Just today, Osama bin Laden's former mistress Kola Boof took to Twitter to attack rapper Wale for perpetuating dominant standards of beauty in his music video for "Pretty Girls," calling him self-loathing.)
But Dark Girls seems to take a different angle. Rather than vilifying the perpetrators of bias, the preview shows women being allowed to tell their own stories in a manner that sends an undeniable message about how nonsensical, painful and historically fraught our stubborn views of skin color and beauty can be.
Read some excerpts from the interviews in the film (produced by Bill Duke for Duke Media and D. Channsin Berry for Urban Winter Entertainment, co-produced by Bradinn French and edited by Bradinn French) and watch the preview below.
"I can remember being in the bathtub asking my mom to put bleach in the water so that my skin would be lighter and so that I could escape the feelings I had about not being as beautiful, as acceptable, as lovable."
"She's pretty for a dark-skinned girl ... What is that supposed to mean?"
"They used to say, 'You stayed in the oven too long.' "
"It was so damaging ... it made it seem like we weren't wanted; that we were less than."
"The racism that we have a people amongst ourselves is a direct backlash of slavery."
Lady thanks for this!
I don’t know how I went against the grain. It must be this deep love I have for my Sisters. I am Creole on my Mom side and I have my Dad’s color. I was always treated differently than my younger Sister who has my Mom & Grandparents skin tone and it was always that side of the family that was outwardly that way. My Dad’s side was that way be very different, almost like a self hate. I was always paired up with the fair skin girls but the only women I have ever been serious have been dark skin women. The Mother of my Son & Daughter is an African.
It is something deep in me that loves deep, dark skin women… The DARKER the berry the SWEETER the juice! It is that way with almost all fruits and veggies and I believe it is true with the Women on this Earth!
Stay up!
I don’t know how I went against the grain. It must be this deep love I have for my Sisters. I am Creole on my Mom side and I have my Dad’s color. I was always treated differently than my younger Sister who has my Mom & Grandparents skin tone and it was always that side of the family that was outwardly that way. My Dad’s side was that way be very different, almost like a self hate. I was always paired up with the fair skin girls but the only women I have ever been serious have been dark skin women. The Mother of my Son & Daughter is an African.
It is something deep in me that loves deep, dark skin women… The DARKER the berry the SWEETER the juice! It is that way with almost all fruits and veggies and I believe it is true with the Women on this Earth!
Stay up!
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