Colourism
Definition
Prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a darker skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group.
Some people are aware of the hierarchies created by white chattel slave owners in America and the Caribbean (Gaspar, 1996). Black women were raped, brutalised and discarded by white chattel slave owners. Children of mixed heritage born from these rapes were then taken from their mothers and deemed “good enough “to work as subservient domestic slaves in the white chattel slave owners house.
