Abstract
Sociocultural implications of man's forthcoming capacity to alter the color of human skin are explored. Current progress in understanding the mechanisms for lightening and darkening skin is reviewed, and future developments are suggested. Probabilities of reaction and acceptance of an alteration technology are examined in terms of "operational characteristics" (e.g., cost, permanence and speed of change, method of application), contemporary social reactions to "passing," traditional ideals of Negro appearance, the rise of militant perspective, and the interplay of white and Negro reactions to an alteration technology. Reactions among white to the availability of mechanisms for darkening skin are analyzed with regard to aesthetics (fashion) and ideological "reverse passing."
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