Skin bleaching: We must stop linking fair skin with beauty and success
Edward Ademolu, a PhD researcher at the UK’s University of Manchester, defines colorism as “an intra-racial complexion-based hierarchy, that often affords societal, cultural, economic privileges and favoritism towards lighter-skinned people and discrimination against those with darker complexions.”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/health/banning-bleaching-products-in-africa/index.html