pigmentocracy

A day earlier, Tutu, who won the Nobel prize in 1984, recalled the South Africa of apartheid, saying it had been a "pigmentocracy" filled with resentment, hate and rage.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

Despite a brief moment when their “whiteness” was questioned, they were inevitably members of a “pigmentocracy” — a minority, but privileged and part of the dominant class, an unprecedented experience for Jews.

South Africa. 2009

But in the South that right was soon subverted by fraud and violence, and within little more than a decade the brutal pigmentocracy of which he had warned had fully reemerged.

Civil Rights & Black Identity 2006

But in the South that right was soon subverted by fraud and violence, and within little more than a decade the brutal pigmentocracy of which he had warned had fully reemerged.

Civil Rights & Black Identity 2006

But in the South that right was soon subverted by fraud and violence, and within little more than a decade the brutal pigmentocracy of which he had warned had fully reemerged.

Civil Rights & Black Identity 2006

The baleful efflorescence of racist sentiments in the post-World War I era prompted the Census Bureau to simplify its stratification of the American pigmentocracy.

'Sellout' 2008

I can't put my finger on it, but it's either a small example of global pigmentocracy against those of African descent, or just an incident of divide and conquering and to start a rift between blacks and Latinos, similar to the "divide and conquer" tactics between blacks and Asians in the UK.

Highlighting the Victims: The Joys (and Sorrows) of You Tube Anxious Black Woman 2007

That myth has undergirded a pigmentocracy that continues to privilege whiteness.

Interracial Intimacy 2002

That myth has undergirded a pigmentocracy that continues to privilege whiteness.

Interracial Intimacy 2002

Colourism hinges on "pigmentocracy," a term coined by Chilean sociologist Alejandro Lipshütz, which refers to a hierarchy based on skin hue and extends to features such as hair texture and the size and shape of the nose and lips.

Thestar.com - Home Page Petura Burrows 2011