When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: brown paper bag principle

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Brown paper bag test - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_paper_bag_test

    Many churches, fraternities, and nightclubs used the "brown paper bag" principle as a test for entrance. People at these organizations would take a brown paper bag and hold it against a person's skin. If a person was lighter than the bag, they were admitted. [6] There is, too, a curious color dynamic that persists in our culture.

  3. Discrimination based on skin tone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on...

    A variety of specific cutoff tests for skin color emerged; the most famous one was the brown paper bag test. [81] If people's skins were darker than the color of a brown paper bag, they were considered "too dark". While the origin of this test is unclear, it is best attested to in 20th-century black culture.

  4. Brownbagging - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownbagging

    Brownbagging or brown-bagging refers to various uses of a typical brown paper bag: . Carrying a packed lunch to work or school, frequently in a brown paper bag; Consuming an alcoholic drink while concealed, usually, but not necessarily, in a brown paper bag, so as to drink in public where such activities are prohibited by law

  5. Racism in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States

    The phrase "brown paper bag test," also known as a paper bag party, along with the "ruler test" refers to a ritual once practiced by certain African-American sororities and fraternities who would not let anyone into the group whose skin tone was darker than a paper bag. [50]

  6. Passing (racial identity) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_(racial_identity)

    Brown Paper Bag Test, also known as a Paper Bag Party; Color-blind casting; Color terminology for race; Cultural appropriation; Cultural assimilation; Discrimination based on skin color, also known as colorism; Good hair; Lookism; Passing (gender) Pretendian; Racial fluidity; Racial integration; Racial misrepresentation; Racial transformation ...

  7. Talk:Brown paper bag test/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Brown_paper_bag_test/...

    4 Picture of the paper bag. 1 comment. 5 General Comments. 1 comment. 6 Book cover images. 1 comment. 7 Urban Myth. ... Talk: Brown paper bag test/Archive 1. Add ...

  8. Pencil test (South Africa) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil_test_(South_Africa)

    Brown paper bag test – 20th-century racial discrimination practice among African Americans; Good hair (phrase) – Afro-textured hair types; Mischling Test – Legal test for Jews in Nazi Germany; One-drop rule – Historical racial classification rule

  9. Talk:Alpha Phi Alpha/Archive 2 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alpha_Phi_Alpha/Archive_2

    A careful review of members throughout the 100 year history of the organization will show that there are members of every hue in the human race, therefore; not all chapters employed the "paper bag test". Ccson 04:43, 7 August 2006 (UTC) the howard chapter used the paper bag test. 64.131.205.160 19:13, 25 August 2006 (UTC)