{"id":53936,"date":"2017-05-17T02:16:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T02:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53936"},"modified":"2017-05-17T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:11:08","slug":"too-pretty-to-play-stephen-curry-and-the-light-skinned-black-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53936","title":{"rendered":"Too pretty to play? Stephen Curry and the light-skinned black\u00a0athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"

Too pretty to play? Stephen Curry and the light-skinned black\u00a0athlete<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Conversation<\/a>
\n2017-04-30<\/p>\n

Ronald Hall<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Social Work
\nMichigan State University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nGolden State Warriors<\/a> guard Stephen Curry<\/a> walks off the court after a game against the Denver Nuggets<\/a> in February. USA Today Sports\/Reuters<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

During a recent interview, Golden State Warriors<\/a> Draymond Green<\/a> discussed why players around the league have long doubted or dismissed the talents of his superstar teammate, Stephen Curry<\/a>. But it was Green\u2019s last point, mentioned almost as an aside \u2013 \u201cAnd of course, Steph is light-skinned so [players] want to make him out to be soft\u201d \u2013 that got the most attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To white Americans, the relationship between skin color and toughness or masculinity might not be obvious. They might associate skin color with race or with attractiveness. But toughness? Not so much.<\/p>\n

My first book<\/a>, published in 1992, referred to skin color as \u201cThe Last Taboo Among African Americans.\u201d It explored how African-Americans, within their community, grapple with prejudices that stem from their various shades of skin colors. If you\u2019re black, depending on the shade of your skin, other black people might think of you as \u201chigh yella\u201d or \u201cred-boned,\u201d a \u201cwhite wanna-be\u201d or just not \u201cblack enough.\u201d…<\/p>\n

..After the first African slaves arrived at Jamestown, Virginia<\/a>, a population of mixed-race blacks emerged. Their masters and fellow slaves celebrated their exotic features \u2013 not quite African, but not exactly white. The women were called<\/a> \u201cfancy girls\u201d and paraded at quadroon balls<\/a>, events for wealthy white men to meet and mingle with them. Lighter-skinned black men, meanwhile, were dubbed \u201crun \u2018round men<\/a>\u201d because, with their fairer skin, they could supposedly have their pick of any woman in the black community…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But it was Green\u2019s last point, mentioned almost as an aside \u2013 \u201cAnd of course, Steph is light-skinned so [players] want to make him out to be soft\u201d \u2013 that got the most attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,459,8,20],"tags":[11052,240,26998,1179,4522,7222,26999,26997,5628],"class_list":["post-53936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-basketball","tag-colorism","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-ronald-e-hall","tag-ronald-hall","tag-sports","tag-steph-curry","tag-stephen-curry","tag-the-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53938,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53936\/revisions\/53938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}