Reply #25: It's still exists. Especially for women. Have you taken a look at the casting of advertisements,

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TV shows and movies. In most cases, lighter skin black women are used to cast for advertising products, are the wives and mothers of successful black men and are used as the objects of beauty and love interests in regards to interracial story lines. The paper bag scenario is also used for the casting of children.

Darker skinned women are mostly delegated to the roles of prostitutes, crack heads, loud brassy *itches with 12 kids, etc....