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* ''Literature/Uglies'': When Tally and Shay are playing around with what they want their new faces to look like in ''Uglies'', Tally mentions moving Shay's skintone "closer to baseline" by making it paler, implying that people's skin tones are expected to become lighter as part of becoming Pretty. Add to this the fact that everyone's Pretty appearances are actually selected by a committee of doctors and ''not'' by their own preferences, and it seems like the Pretty surgeries often involve people with darker skin made lighter if darker-toned and/or being made to look more white.
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* [[http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/03/syfys-eureka-starts-production-scores-bsg-star/ This]] promotional picture for Creator/SyFy series ''{{Series/Eureka}}'' shows Alison Blake (played by the half-black Creator/SalliRichardsonWhitfield) with a complexion that is lighter than her actual coloring.
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* [[http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/03/syfys-eureka-starts-production-scores-bsg-star/ This]] promotional picture for Creator/SyFy series ''{{Series/Eureka}}'' ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' shows Alison Blake (played by the half-black Creator/SalliRichardsonWhitfield) with a complexion that is lighter than her actual coloring.
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* ''Fanfic/MarinettesWeekOff'': {{Discussed|Trope}} in the sequel; when Marinette notes that the casting director was surprised when she showed up to an audition, her agent Leslie reveals that the casting call specified wanting a ''Caucasian'' girl with dark hair, blue eyes and olive skin at the darkest. She explains that while Marinette is largely white-passing, her appearance is "exotic" enough to put her into a sweet spot that Leslie has been exploiting to help diversify Hollywood; she looks white enough to potentially get cast anyway, while potentially helping get a "foot in the door" for others who might not have been considered otherwise.
-->'''Leslie:''' Casting call was for a dark haired, blue-eyed, Caucasian, light to olive tanned-skinned girl, between the ages of thirteen to fifteen. I sent you. I send you for the same reason Zendaya tells her manager that: Anytime it says they're looking for white girls, to send her out. Maybe you'll change their minds. Maybe you won't. But in this case you did.
* ''Fanfic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'':
** Penny Polendina's father attempts to protect her from being discriminated against for being mixed race; however, Shere Khan sexually assaults her after mistaking her for a white girl, then nearly kills her when he bombs the train she's on.
** Jackson's white family prefer him to his twin Holt since he has an easier time passing as white; however, this also gets him ostracized by his peers at school, who are mostly minorities. A police officer later assualts Holt, but spares Jackson because he doesn't look as black.
** One of the reasons why Bidoof's mother treated her as TheUnfavorite was because her skin was darker than her siblings; as a result, her mother insists Bidoof is much less attractive.
** Bliss' kidnapper claims that Professor Utonium prefers his other daughters since they're lighter-skinned than her, and that nobody else will want her. While she eventually manages to escape, she's still grapples with fear that her kidnapper was right all along.
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* ''Fanfic/MarinettesWeekOff'': {{Discussed|Trope}} in the sequel; when Marinette notes that the casting director was surprised when she showed up to an audition, her agent Leslie reveals that the casting call specified wanting a ''Caucasian'' girl with dark hair, blue eyes and olive skin at the darkest. She explains that while Marinette is largely white-passing, her appearance is "exotic" enough to put her into a sweet spot that Leslie has been exploiting to help diversify Hollywood; she looks white enough to potentially get cast anyway, while potentially helping get a "foot in the door" for others who might not have been considered otherwise.
-->'''Leslie:''' Casting call was for a dark haired, blue-eyed, Caucasian, light to olive tanned-skinned girl, between the ages of thirteen to fifteen. I sent you. I send you for the same reason Zendaya tells her manager that: Anytime it says they're looking for white girls, to send her out. Maybe you'll change their minds. Maybe you won't. But in this case you did.
* ''Fanfic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'':
** Penny Polendina's father attempts to protect her from being discriminated against for being mixed race; however, Shere Khan sexually assaults her after mistaking her for a white girl, then nearly kills her when he bombs the train she's on.
** Jackson's white family prefer him to his twin Holt since he has an easier time passing as white; however, this also gets him ostracized by his peers at school, who are mostly minorities. A police officer later assualts Holt, but spares Jackson because he doesn't look as black.
** One of the reasons why Bidoof's mother treated her as TheUnfavorite was because her skin was darker than her siblings; as a result, her mother insists Bidoof is much less attractive.
** Bliss' kidnapper claims that Professor Utonium prefers his other daughters since they're lighter-skinned than her, and that nobody else will want her. While she eventually manages to escape, she's still grapples with fear that her kidnapper was right all along.
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* Creator/VinDiesel's semi-autobiographical film ''Film/MultiFacial'' details the difficulties of a multiracial actor, who can't get parts because he's too black to play white but too white to play black. Diesel's star power has apparently allowed him to jump the hurdle. He's even played a real-life Italian-American mafioso in Sidney Lumet's ''Film/FindMeGuilty.''
* ''Film/{{Saltburn}}'': Farleigh is Felix's cousin, and the [[TokenBlackFriend only black member of the aristocracy]], but he is light-skinned. He's conscious of his race despite his social class.
* In ''Film/TheSapphires'', the story of an Aboriginal girls quartet that toured Vietnam entertaining the troops, one of the group members, Kay, is a member of the stolen generation, and her time spent in Melbourne passing as a white girl (after being taken away by an agency and put into a mission as a child) is a source of tension between her and Gail, the darkest member of the group who deals with whatever insecurities she has about her complexion by almost relentlessly bullying Kay. And rather than lording her light complexion over the others, Kay has her own insecurities about it (probably due to Gail's ill treatment)--in the course of developing a relationship with a black GI, she feels it necessary to point out that even though she's "pale black", she's still black.
* ''Film/SoulFood''. Maxine accuses her son Ahmad of being "color struck" when she notices that out of the two girls who have come to visit him, he completely ignores the dark-skinned girl in favor of the light-skinned one, even though he has more in common with the darker girl.
* ''Film/{{Saltburn}}'': Farleigh is Felix's cousin, and the [[TokenBlackFriend only black member of the aristocracy]], but he is light-skinned. He's conscious of his race despite his social class.
* In ''Film/TheSapphires'', the story of an Aboriginal girls quartet that toured Vietnam entertaining the troops, one of the group members, Kay, is a member of the stolen generation, and her time spent in Melbourne passing as a white girl (after being taken away by an agency and put into a mission as a child) is a source of tension between her and Gail, the darkest member of the group who deals with whatever insecurities she has about her complexion by almost relentlessly bullying Kay. And rather than lording her light complexion over the others, Kay has her own insecurities about it (probably due to Gail's ill treatment)--in the course of developing a relationship with a black GI, she feels it necessary to point out that even though she's "pale black", she's still black.
* ''Film/SoulFood''. Maxine accuses her son Ahmad of being "color struck" when she notices that out of the two girls who have come to visit him, he completely ignores the dark-skinned girl in favor of the light-skinned one, even though he has more in common with the darker girl.
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* Creator/VinDiesel's semi-autobiographical film ''Film/MultiFacial'' details the difficulties of a multiracial actor, who can't get parts because he's too black to play white but too white to play black. Diesel's star power has apparently allowed him to jump the hurdle. He's even played a real-life Italian-American mafioso in Sidney Lumet's ''Film/FindMeGuilty.''
* ''Film/{{Saltburn}}'': Farleigh is Felix's cousin, and the [[TokenBlackFriend only black member of the aristocracy]], but he is light-skinned. He's conscious of his race despite his social class.
* In ''Film/TheSapphires'', the story of an Aboriginal girls quartet that toured Vietnam entertaining the troops, one of the group members, Kay, is a member of the stolen generation, and her time spent in Melbourne passing as a white girl (after being taken away by an agency and put into a mission as a child) is a source of tension between her and Gail, the darkest member of the group who deals with whatever insecurities she has about her complexion by almost relentlessly bullying Kay. And rather than lording her light complexion over the others, Kay has her own insecurities about it (probably due to Gail's ill treatment)--in the course of developing a relationship with a black GI, she feels it necessary to point out that even though she's "pale black", she's still black.
* ''Film/SoulFood''. Maxine accuses her son Ahmad of being "color struck" when she notices that out of the two girls who have come to visit him, he completely ignores the dark-skinned girl in favor of the light-skinned one, even though he has more in common with the darker girl.
* ''Film/{{Saltburn}}'': Farleigh is Felix's cousin, and the [[TokenBlackFriend only black member of the aristocracy]], but he is light-skinned. He's conscious of his race despite his social class.
* In ''Film/TheSapphires'', the story of an Aboriginal girls quartet that toured Vietnam entertaining the troops, one of the group members, Kay, is a member of the stolen generation, and her time spent in Melbourne passing as a white girl (after being taken away by an agency and put into a mission as a child) is a source of tension between her and Gail, the darkest member of the group who deals with whatever insecurities she has about her complexion by almost relentlessly bullying Kay. And rather than lording her light complexion over the others, Kay has her own insecurities about it (probably due to Gail's ill treatment)--in the course of developing a relationship with a black GI, she feels it necessary to point out that even though she's "pale black", she's still black.
* ''Film/SoulFood''. Maxine accuses her son Ahmad of being "color struck" when she notices that out of the two girls who have come to visit him, he completely ignores the dark-skinned girl in favor of the light-skinned one, even though he has more in common with the darker girl.
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* Subtly alluded to on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. When the girls start Photoshopping their pictures to make themselves unrealistically hot, Nichole, the one black girl, makes her skin lighter. (Though oddly, later it's shown dark again.)
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* Subtly alluded to on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. When the girls start Photoshopping their pictures to make themselves unrealistically hot, Nichole, the one black girl, makes her skin lighter.lighter and her hair straight. (Though oddly, later it's shown dark again.)
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole You can't change the difficulty in the mid-game like that, how shameful.]]]]
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how shameful.]]]]
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Someone might be deemed undesirable and unattractive for being dark-skinned. Another might be denied a job opportunity because their skin tone is too dark and for potentially scaring off those with a lighter skin shade. A parent with children of varying skin shades may [[ParentalFavoritism prefer their light-skinned child over their dark-skinned one]], who is regarded as the TheUnfavorite of their family. There are also the characters with [[InternalizedCategorism internalized colorism]], who despise themselves for being dark-skinned and might be obsessed with conforming to Eurocentric beauty standards by whitening their skin and the like because of their self-hatred. Such characters, especially female ones, are prone to experience hearing backhanded compliments such as "you're too pretty for a dark-skinned girl" while growing up, which can undermine their self-esteem and push them into hating their own skin color, as it's not validated by others.
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There's discrimination based on sex, class, race, and then there's discrimination against skin tone and/or physical features which are known as colorism. Light skin is favored over dark skin, and Eurocentric facial and physical features are favored over non-Eurocentric features.
Just like in real life, colorism is a broad issue that can manifest in many ways in fiction.
Someone would be deemed undesirable and unattractive for being dark-skinned. Another would be denied a job opportunity because their skin tone is too dark and for potentially scaring off those who have a lighter skin shade. A parent with children of varying skin shades may [[ParentalFavoritism prefer their light-skinned kid than their dark-skinned one]] who'd be seen as the TheUnfavorite of their family. There are also the characters with [[InternalizedCategorism internalized colorism]] who despise themselves for being dark-skinned and might be obsessed with conforming to Eurocentric beauty standards by whitening their skin and the like because of their self-hatred. Such characters, especially female ones, would be used to hearing backhanded compliments such as "you're too pretty for a dark-skinned girl" growing up which can destroy their confidence in their skin and push them into hating their skin color as it's not validated by others.
Meanwhile, characters of ethnic minority groups with light skin (biracial or mixed race) may enjoy more privileges than those with a shade darker, furthering the inequality between how the light-skinned character is treated in contrast with the dark-skinned character, depending on how the story explores this dynamic.
Just like in real life, colorism is a broad issue that can manifest in many ways in fiction.
Someone would be deemed undesirable and unattractive for being dark-skinned. Another would be denied a job opportunity because their skin tone is too dark and for potentially scaring off those who have a lighter skin shade. A parent with children of varying skin shades may [[ParentalFavoritism prefer their light-skinned kid than their dark-skinned one]] who'd be seen as the TheUnfavorite of their family. There are also the characters with [[InternalizedCategorism internalized colorism]] who despise themselves for being dark-skinned and might be obsessed with conforming to Eurocentric beauty standards by whitening their skin and the like because of their self-hatred. Such characters, especially female ones, would be used to hearing backhanded compliments such as "you're too pretty for a dark-skinned girl" growing up which can destroy their confidence in their skin and push them into hating their skin color as it's not validated by others.
Meanwhile, characters of ethnic minority groups with light skin (biracial or mixed race) may enjoy more privileges than those with a shade darker, furthering the inequality between how the light-skinned character is treated in contrast with the dark-skinned character, depending on how the story explores this dynamic.
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There's discrimination based on sex, race, ethnicity, class, race, and gender, sexuality, religion, etc. And then there's discrimination against skin tone and/or physical features features, which are is known as colorism. Light skin is favored over dark skin, dark, and Eurocentric facial and physical features are favored over non-Eurocentric features.
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Just like in real life, colorism is a broad issuethat which can manifest in many ways in fiction.
Someonewould might be deemed undesirable and unattractive for being dark-skinned. Another would might be denied a job opportunity because their skin tone is too dark and for potentially scaring off those who have with a lighter skin shade. A parent with children of varying skin shades may [[ParentalFavoritism prefer their light-skinned kid than child over their dark-skinned one]] who'd be seen one]], who is regarded as the TheUnfavorite of their family. There are also the characters with [[InternalizedCategorism internalized colorism]] colorism]], who despise themselves for being dark-skinned and might be obsessed with conforming to Eurocentric beauty standards by whitening their skin and the like because of their self-hatred. Such characters, especially female ones, would be used are prone to experience hearing backhanded compliments such as "you're too pretty for a dark-skinned girl" while growing up up, which can destroy undermine their confidence in their skin self-esteem and push them into hating their own skin color color, as it's not validated by others.
Meanwhile, charactersof from ethnic minority groups with light lighter skin (biracial or mixed race) may enjoy more privileges than those with a shade darker, furthering the inequality between how the light-skinned character is treated in contrast with the dark-skinned character, depending on how the story explores this dynamic.
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* ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' always boasted it was the first mainstream magazine to have African American models as part of Hugh Hefner's commitment to the Civil Rights Movement. However critics pointed out that the black Playmates were more accurately described as mixed race, every one having at very least one white parent, giving them light coloured skin, straight hair and European features.
* ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' always boasted it was the first mainstream magazine to have African American models as part of Hugh Hefner's commitment to the Civil Rights Movement. However critics pointed out that the black Playmates were more accurately described as mixed race, every one having at very least one white parent, giving them light coloured skin, straight hair and European features.
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* ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' always boasted that it was the first mainstream magazine to have African American models as part of Hugh Hefner's commitment to the Civil Rights Movement. However critics pointed out that the black Playmates were more accurately described as mixed race, every one having at very least one white parent, giving them light coloured skin, straight hair and European features.
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* Playboy always boasted it was the first mainstream magazine to have African American models as part of Hugh Hefner's commitment to the Civil Rights Movement. However critics pointed out that the black Playmates were more accurately described as mixed race, every one having at very least one white parent, giving them light coloured skin, straight hair and European features.
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* Playboy ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' always boasted it was the first mainstream magazine to have African American models as part of Hugh Hefner's commitment to the Civil Rights Movement. However critics pointed out that the black Playmates were more accurately described as mixed race, every one having at very least one white parent, giving them light coloured skin, straight hair and European features.
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* ''Anime/LadyLady'': [[https://mediaproxy.tvtropes.org/width/350/https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lynn_russell.jpg This]] is Lynn Russell. She is half-English and half-Japanese. However, she looks completely white. Not that this stops her RacistGrandpa from refusing to acknowledge her as his grandchild because he doesn't like the fact that his son married a non-white lady.
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* ''Anime/LadyLady'': ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': [[https://mediaproxy.tvtropes.org/width/350/https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lynn_russell.jpg This]] is Lynn Russell. She is half-English and half-Japanese. However, she looks completely white. Not that this stops her RacistGrandpa from refusing to acknowledge her as his grandchild because he doesn't like the fact that his son married a non-white lady.
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*''Anime/LadyLady'': [[https://mediaproxy.tvtropes.org/width/350/https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lynn_russell.jpg This]] is Lynn Russell. She is half-English and half-Japanese. However, she looks completely white. Not that this stops her RacistGrandpa from refusing to acknowledge her as his grandchild because he doesn't like the fact that his son married a non-white lady.
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* ''Film/{{Saltburn}}'': Farleigh is Felix's cousin, and the [[TokenBlackFriend only black member of the aristocracy]], but he is light-skinned. He's conscious of his race despite his social class.
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* In ''Film/{{Vivah}}'', Rajni isn't considered as attractive a marriage prospect as her cousin Poonam, even though Poonam is an orphan with no dowry, in part because Rajni is darker-skinned.
