Beauty and the Bleach: the colonial history of colourism explored in BBC documentary
Beauty and the Bleach: the colonial history of colourism explored in BBC documentary: In a recent BBC documentary, entitled Beauty and the Bleach, presenter Tan France (of Queer Eye fame) tackles the issue of colourism. Also known as pigmentocracy, colourism is defined as discrimination that privileges light-skinned people of colour over their darker-skinned peers. France …
