Most early race movies were melodramas focusing on social questions including racial identity; light-skinned blacks "passing" as whites, for instance.

Some of them have African blood and look like light-skinned blacks.

We are all a little bit racist - from Dominicans to light-skinned blacks to Chinese to rednecks.

A young, light-skinned black was laid out on the stainless steel table.

In the 1950s, Zanesville was known for its population of light-skinned blacks who could "pass" (be admitted to whites-only places).

Ms. Morrow said she was discriminated against because her darker-skinned supervisor was prejudiced against light-skinned blacks.

For years, many prestigious black social organizations limited their membership to light-skinned blacks.

The switch made skin color more important as an ethnic marker, with light-skinned blacks enjoying greater opportunities for mobility than those with darker skin.

Not all of them were against him; he was beginning to prove himself by fighting dozens-style, and a number of them were light-skinned blacks like himself.

Then there is the divisiveness of color consciousness - the friction between light-skinned and dark-skinned blacks.