was known for prizing very light-skinned black women.' They were valued for their proximity to whiteness but also fit stereotypes involving sexuality-being seen as exotic or sexually aggressive. At this time the 'trade in black women as sexual slaves.
She writes about colorism through its link to the antebellum era. The content of Players brings to mind Mireille Miller-Young's 1980's research on the adult entertainment industry A Taste for Brown Sugar primarily 'Colorism and the Myth of Prohibition'.
