Colorism in America: SHADE and WHITE CHOCOLATE -
our time

Racial stereotyping has an insidious history in the U.S. While gains in civil rights have increased significantly, younger generations continue to perpetuate harmful labels, often subtle ones, that undermine people of color. Filmmaker Antreise Lacey (SHADE) confronts the terms "team light skin/team dark skin" and filmmaker Shaienne Knox examines black hair styles that hew to white beauty standards.

Episode Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 206

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About Our Time:

OUR TIME is a series produced by youth in partnership with professional documentary filmmakers.

Films in the series feature character-driven stories that address social issues ranging from racial inequity to identity politics and everything in-between - all through the eyes of young people.

Working hand-in-hand with award-winning, nationally recognized filmmakers and television producers, these young students produce high-caliber, emotionally driven, first-person narratives that derive from their own lived experiences.