Shadism, a legacy of slavery, is a form of skin tone bias that identifies groups and individuals on the basis of their degree
of pigmentation . It is an evaluation of people that minutely registers traits such as skin color,
hair, and facial features in order to construct social hierarchies. Shadism is closely related to 'colorism

Colorism

Colorism is prejudice or discrimination in which human beings are accorded differing social treatment based on skin color. The preference often gets translated into economic status because of opportunities for work. Colorism can be found across the world...

,' another associated practice that is the manifestation of an internalized, colonial-induced racial self-hatred.

See also

• Black-on-black racism
• Colorism
  Colorism
  Colorism is prejudice or discrimination in which human beings are accorded differing social treatment based on skin color. The preference often gets translated into economic status because of opportunities for work. Colorism can be found across the world...
  
  
• Colonial mentality
  Colonial mentality
  Colonial mentality is an area of study and a conceptual theory in Cultural anthropology that refers to institutionalized or systemic feelings of inferiority within some societies or people who have been subjected to colonialism, relative to the values of the foreign powers which had previously...
  
  
• Human skin color
  Human skin color
  Human skin color is primarily due to the presence of melanin in the skin. Skin color ranges from almost black to white with a pinkish tinge due to blood vessels underneath. Variation in natural skin color is mainly due to genetics, although the evolutionary causes are not completely certain...
  
  
• Nordicism
  Nordic theory
  The Nordic race is one of the racial subcategories into which the Caucasian race was divided by anthropologists in the first half of the 20th century...
  
  
• One-drop rule
  One-drop rule
  The one-drop rule is a historical colloquial term in the United States for the social classification as black of individuals with any African ancestry; meaning any person with "one drop of black blood" was considered black...
  
  
• Race
• Racialism
  Racialism
  Racialism is an emphasis on race or racial considerations. Currently, racialism entails a belief in the existence and significance of racial categories, but not necessarily that any absolute hierarchy between the races has been demonstrated by a rigorous and comprehensive scientific process...
  
  
• Racism
  Racism
  Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...
  
  
• Skin whitening
  Skin whitening
  Skin whitening, skin lightening and skin bleaching refers to the practice of using chemical substances in an attempt to lighten skin tone or provide an even skin complexion by lessening the concentration of melanin...
  
  
• Social interpretations of race
  Social interpretations of race
  Social interpretations of race regard the common categorizations of people into different races, often with biologist tagging of particular "racial" attributes beyond mere anatomy, as more socially and culturally determined than based upon biology...