F.D Signifier | Black Men and Colorism on Screen @FDSignifire | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 5 minutes ago
In this video, Fiq returns to look at images of black men in movies and looks at the seemingly odd paradox of the overall absence of light-skinned black men from the media spotlight, at least compared to their darker peers. In investigating this phenomenon, Fiq looks at how shades of blackness affect black men outside of media, the mythology behind black men's sexuality, and the ways that this comes across on screen.

00:00 Content Warning/Thought Experiment
03:15 Introduction (Level Setting)
13:04 Examples of Colorism in the Media
19:29 What Makes a Hollywood Leading Man?
23:08 Biases toward Darker Skin
27:40 Self Hatred and Interracial Dating
33:09 Fetishism of Black Men's Bodies
39:29 Black Men and Sexual Violence
44:43 The Double Consciousness

Yara Zayd Video-
youtube.com/watch?v=Ie9NOhSG6rI&t=1482s

Other videos on colorism

Tee Noir- youtube.com/watch?v=tXi0SkuWcdk&t=296s

Kadija Mbowe- youtube.com/watch?v=W9ussxD32tE&t=1558s

Demi Mykal- youtube.com/watch?v=g2NPL7-nT98

Colorism studies
General overview- https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/deib-explorer/files/the_persistent_problem_of_colorism.pdf

Police shootings- researchgate.net/profile/Jandel-Crutchfield/publication/327797315_Colorism_and_Police_Killings/links/5ba4e63145851574f7dbc96e/Colorism-and-Police-Killings.pdf