How would you score on the paper bag test? Does skin color influence how you are able to move through this world? This podcast explores the ways skin color influences Black women's wellbeing as part of Beautiful in Your Skin Month. We discuss with Dr. Margaret Hunter the concept of skin color as a form of social capital; this concept explain how beauty, defined through light skin, works as capital and an evaluation tool on the dimensions of education, income, and spousal status.

https://www.psychologyofblackwomanhood.com/post/black-women-s-negotiations-of-colorism