The Myth of Third World Solidarity: Hypergamy by Skin Colour as a Vehicle of Racism vis-à-vis African Americans
Author(s)
Hall, Ronald E.
Abstract
Asserts that racism in America is a psychological extension of European conquest and is a psychosocial event perpetrated among those of the third world against their brethren of the darkest skin. It is posited that as an intellectual taboo, the existence of racism among people of color is all but ignored in the scholarly literature. Racism is manifested on the basis of skin color directed primarily at African-Americans. Having internalized Eurocentric ideals, people of color avail themselves to an aspect of domination extended from the denigration of dark skin. A status deprivation of African Americans, being of the darkest skin, is then reflected in a variety of behaviors. Being no less pathological than Euro-American racism, Third World solidarity is a myth. The resolution of both typologies requires discussions of racism to move from “race” to “skin color” as a more applicable, universally encompassing model.
