Pigmentocracy

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A pigmentocracy is a group-based social hierarchy based largely on human skin color, spanning across ethnic, religious, gender, and socio-economic groups.

[edit] Further reading

• "Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic" by Jim Sidanius, Yesilernis Pena & Mark Sawyer; Political Psychology Volume 22 Issue 4 Page 827 - December 2001.
• "Nomenclature in a pigmentocracy--a scientist's dilemma.," Bourne DE.
• "Child Prostitution and Sex Tourism: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC"; A research paper prepared for ECPAT by Dr Julia O'Connell Davidson and Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor of the Department of Sociology, University of Leicester, UK, December 1995.
• "From bi-racial to tri-racial: Towards a new system of racial stratification in the USA"; Eduardo Bonilla-Silva; Ethnic and Racial Studies, November 2004, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 931-950(20)

[edit] See also

• Melanin
• Xenophobia
• Evil albino
• White Man's Burden
• White privilege
• Racism
• Theories about the origins of Pigmentocracy
• White supremacy
• Black supremacy
• Culture of Mexico