The Brown Paper Bag Test
This piece is part of a poster series where a graphic design style was combined with a circumstantial facet of black culture. In this instance the topic is colorism.
Featured here is a Swiss style poster detailing The Brown Paper Bag Test, a form of racial discrimination used in the 20th century in the United States, only those with a skin color that matched or was lighter than a brown paper bag were allowed admission or membership privileges by many Black social institutions such as sororities, fraternities, and churches.
