African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Colorism

Poems dealing with Colorism, or the internalized discrimination against darker skin among people of color.

Contents of this tag:

  1. Zora Neale Hurston, "Color Struck" (Full text of one-act play) (1926)
  2. Wallace Thurman, "The Blacker The Berry" (1929) (full text)
  3. Katherine D. Tillman, "Bashy" (1902)