high yellow , also: high yeller , also: high yella

High Yellow is a 1965 film about a black girl who tries to pass for white.

She was made up as a high yellow in an evening gown!

Its forward line, already far away, was marked by a high yellow cascade.

The high yellow let out a scream and dropped the knife.

I dropped the high yellow and his friend in a heap on the floor as the guys paid Sam off.

A high yellow was sitting on the porch steps swinging her legs.

The high yellow box kept on towards the river.

When they came to the high yellow wall, where the lane turned off from the road, Helen was for dismissing the two young men.

The high yellow was holding his broken wrist in one hand, trying to get to his feet.

Looming up ahead was a high yellow wall.

As they followed a path through high yellow grass, Quinn asked, "How far?"

I got the knife hand and pulled down hard, and the high yellow landed in a heap on top of me.

High yellow flames danced on the dark stone hearth.

When I passed the high yellow and his friend, I saw their eyes follow me right through the doors of the back room.

They ate a dozen tiny apples and, in a field of high yellow grass, threw the cores at each other.

West was a free woman of color, of mixed race, or a "high yellow" in the terminology used in those times.

A moment later she saw it, a high yellow monster, pushing a mound of wet earth in front of the blade.

For example, a high yellow student named Maureen Peal is shown favoritism at school.

Maureen Peal: A high yellow, wealthy mulatto girl who is new at the local school.

High yellow was a term sometimes used in the early 20th century, to describe light-skinned African-Americans.

- 6 months ago High yellow b@$tard$.

All the noble characters are high yellows; all the ignoble ones are black.

In an aspect of colorism, "high yellow" was also related to social class distinctions among people of color.

"High yellow" was a term used at the time to refer to white-appearing blacks, mostly those of mixed-racial descent.

Her flowing hair reflected the light of the high yellow sun, her legs were lean and moving rhythmically, effortlessly.