In 'Love Is Blind: Mexico,' the latest series in the popular Netflix franchise, the country's colorism is on full display.
Periodically, the Latinx Files will feature a guest writer. This week, we’ve asked De Los contributing columnist Alex Zaragoza to fill in. If you have not subscribed to our weekly newsletter, you can do so here. With any reality TV dating show, you watch with a wince, bracing yourself for the cringe, the delicious drama or the straight up offensive moments that set off the group chat and time lines. That’s the draw.
, where female dating show contestants have a tendency to describe their ideal man as “tall, dark, and handsome” when they mean someone who looks like Jacob Elordi , it was clear Fernando didn’t mean a Black woman when he communicated his preference for “morenas.” And while Torales does have darker skin than the majority fair-skinned cast, she wouldn’t be considered Black, which reads as an implicit erasure of Black Mexicans. Skin tone preference is rooted in anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity.
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