lightskins

Noun

lightskin (plural lightskins)

1. A black, mixed race, Indigenous, Latino, or other person of color who has relatively light-coloured skin.
   • A man who is getting ahead tends to seek a lighter mate, and because “a good man is hard to find,” it would be difficult for a lightskin girl consistently to reject darker people. A darker man who offers security, through social position and other advantages, may well be preferred to a lightskin...1941, W. Lloyd Warner, Buford H. Junker, Walter A. Adams, “Lightskin Women”, in Color and Human Nature: Negro Personality Development in a Northern City, Washington, D.C.: American Council on...

   Synonyms:

   fair-skinned

   Antonyms:

   darkskin