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> It was also present -- and documented even in Africa Do you have a source for that? I'm not disagreeing, only curious.
by autoexec 5y ago
> It was also present -- and documented even in Africa
Do you have a source for that? I'm not disagreeing, only curious.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoPeter Frost writes a lot about this. Here are two (heavily overlapping) articles: https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2006/12/skin-color-preference-in-sub-saharan.html https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2006/12/skin-color-preferen... https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2013/08/perception-of-skin-color-in-sub-saharan.html https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2013/08/perception-of-skin-... Another observation he's made is that black children are born light and darken, with a noticeable sex difference: - Black males darken until eventually they reach adult darkness. - Black females darken until puberty, at which point they are darker than they will be as adults. One of the changes they experience during puberty is a lightening of their skin.