Capitol Hill Blue Forums Life and Moral Issues Education High Yellow

And from the bookworm: A few years back a black writer published a book entitled Our Kind of People. I don't remember it ever using the phrase "high yellow" but it was quite informative about prejudice within the African-American society, particularly prior to the 1960s. I learned about Jack and Jill clubs and the paper bag test. The writer took a pretty that's-the-way-it-was tone and didn't come across as too judgemental. I remember reading several pages of reviews of it on Amazon.com during a less hectic time in my life, way before I discovered y'all.