HIS FINAL PROJECT

T’Erica Huff

Milestone One: Research Topic

African American Struggle Against the Color of Their Skin in the USA

Southern New Hampshire University

The topic that I chose is the "African-American struggle against the color of their skin in the USA". A racist ideology system that led to a framework of supremacy was established by the European colonization that favored white over black. To explain the oppression and inequality of African and Native Americans, biological variations in the skin coloring were also used, contributing to a racial hierarchy that put white only at peak and black at the bottom. Slaves with the slightest skin became permitted to perform less stringent activities like homework, whereas slaves with darker skin worked harder than most likely outside. African-Americans with a partly white legacy were seen as more innovative and better to dark blacks, thus providing more comprehensive schooling and assets acquisitions. Those are some of factors as to why I decided to select this topic.

The color was indeed a tactic used to establish a split between Africans-Americans by white colonists and promote the notion that it is ideal to be as similar to the white one as possible. The white former slaves decided, in the first types of colorism, that absolute slavery of white skin would be able to work in the home, while the African-Americans would be exposed to the harsh conditions on the land. The division between both the slaves was apparent. Tests were carried out to find out who was light enough to work in the building and who had special rights often. The brown paper bag test was one of these exams (Frederickson, 2015). If human skin was darker than a brown paper bag, the house's skin was said to be too black. Skin testing was used not only by whites, who sought to distinguish between blacks but also by blacks. All this contributed to this topic being captivating to research and come up with a paper.

References Frederickson, G. (2015). Racism: A Short History. Princeton University Press. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400873678