ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 covers the ecological perspective as relates to colorism via theoretical construct. Dark skin is denigrated in the Western world. Blacks and other people of color who reside in the West per influence of the Western world must navigate a social environment in many instances alien to their native ideals. Subsequently as similar others who reside in the West people of color then denigrate dark skin. This includes those so characterized as dark-skinned personally given that man is a product of his/her environment. The frame for this assumption then extends from ecology. This concept of ecology is an effective explanation of racism which is categorized in three different components. Those components consist of primary, secondary and tertiary racism. Primary racism exists as acted out between blacks and whites. Secondary racism exists as acted out between groups of color against other groups of color. Tertiary racism exists as acted out between an individual member from a color group against an individual from another group of color. Although victims in the last instance are of the same race, it qualifies as racism via an extension of the primary version.
