Light skin

using chemical substances to lighten skin tone or provide an even skin complexion

human skin color

Japanese Culture

thumb|''Ham's Redemption|A Redenção de Cam (Redemption of Ham''), by Galician painter [[Modesto Brocos, 1895, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes. The painting depicts a black grandmother, mulatta mother, white father and their quadroon child, hence three generations of racial hypergamy through whitening.]]