Whitening ideology generates envy on both sides of the black class divide

Evidence

In any case, as Peter Wade points out in the case of Colombia in his characteristically nuanced way, the push to lighten up prompts envious resentments across their class divide between those variously marked as black. One could add, by those refusing or failing at euro-mimetic enlightening as by those fueled by it. But also by the latter, who are constantly having to prove themselves, envious and resentful of those at ease with the fact of their blackness, at one with their class and community. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1208

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does this bidirectional envy apply to whitening pressures outside Colombia? Worth comparing with other mestizaje societies.
• XREF: connects to: Whitening norms frame impoverishment as black and wealth as white — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1150