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Mexico’s new racial reckoning: A movement protests colorism and white privilege

Por: Los Angeles Times World October 20, 2022

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A few months ago, several employees of an upscale Mexico City steakhouse came forward with a damning allegation: The restaurant had a policy of segregation in which the best tables were reserved for the customers with the lightest skin. The notion of whiter Mexicans getting preferential treatment was not surprising in a country where darker-skinned people have long earned less money, received less schooling and been all but invisible in the... + full article



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