Skin-color preference in sub-Saharan Africa


	Skin-color preference in sub-Saharan Africa

dakotayii

6-8-2008 9:40 PM

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http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2007/07/skin-color-and-mating-preferences-among.html

Both very interesting articles . Too long to copy. Please go to source.

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It has long been noted that black men prefer lighter-skinned women, both in sub-Saharan Africa and in the black diaspora. For the United States, we can quote several writers. "<SPAN>A fair Negro woman … has such superior marriage chances that this fact is generally recognized as the major explanation of why passable women do not seem to pass out of the Negro caste as often as do passable men</SPAN>" (Myrdal 1944: 698). "<SPAN>The frequency with which Negro men choose women fairer than they are attests at least in part to the connection in the mind of the black man between fair skin and beauty</SPAN>" (Grier and Cobbs 1968:80). "<SPAN>Several research projects conducted in the last few years suggest that African-American men are more attracted to women who are lighter than they are, and that African-American women believe light skin makes them, or would make them, more appealing</SPAN>" (<A href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2730_134/ai_n16108105" linkindex="97">Layng 2006</A>).</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/921338A3-9DDA-4579-A2B5-C8344B218458/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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