The Blue Vein Society: Light Skinned Blacks ONLY-No Dark Skins Allowed | Reconstruction Era Colorism
If you have ever had even a surface level conversation about blacks in The United States of America, chances are that you have heard of the brown paper bag test or the paper bag test. Very briefly, in case you haven’t heard of it…
The brown paper bag test is an early 1900’s discriminatory practice that blacks used against other blacks – in which an individual’s skin tone is compared to the color of a brown paper bag. One was said to pass the test by having a skin tone that matched the hue of the paper bag or was lighter than the paper bag. What did passing the test mean? Access to privileges. Those privileges could be anything from gaining membership to sororities, fraternities and other social clubs to gaining admission to schools and even churches. Definitely not an example of black people at our finest hour.
But today, I want to discuss the black and partially black people who opened the door that allowed the paper bag test to become a reality. The lighter black Americans who used the brown paper bag test as a tactic to distance themselves from darker black Americans actually had a predecessor group of light complexion blacks, biracials, mulattos, quadroons and octoroons who prided themselves on THEIR proximity to whiteness; and saw dark complexioned black as inferior. The pre-brown paper bag testing group was called the Blue Vein Society. As their name suggests, they delighted in having skin that was so white, that their blue veins could be seen through it. And they wanted absolutely nothing to do with other blacks whose veins were concealed by their dark skin. And they went out of their way to make their disdain for those dark skinned blacks to be made public.
Let’s get into it for Black History Month, and on the heels of Thandie Newton’s weird apology.
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