Definition of "pigmentocracy"

pigmentocracy

noun
countable and uncountable, plural pigmentocracies
1. Government by or social hierarchy of those with a certain skin tone, regardless of race or socioeconomic status.
  Quotations
  Black America used to be, and perhaps still is, a pigmentocracy, which means that the social hierarchy is based largely on colorism.
  2011, Don Lemon, Transparent‎, Las Vegas: Farrah Gray