Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. conceited on the grounds of one’s light skin colour.

1926		Z.N. Hurston [play title] Color Struck.
1934		Z.N. Hurston Jonah’s Gourd Vine 91: You so pretty and you ain’t color-struck lak uh whole heap uh bright-skin people.
1946		Drake & Cayton Black Metropolis 496: When ‘fair’ (i.e., light-skinned) Negroes seem inordinately proud of their skin-color [...] Bronzeville calls them ‘color-struck’.
1956		J.O. Killens Youngblood 172: She’s got more to her than fifty of those color-struck women up at the University.
1980		J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 39: His neighbors defensively dismiss him as ‘color-struck’.

2. of a black person, preferring light-skinned to dark-skinned black people.

1929		W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 3 Jan. [synd. col.] In Hahhlim, when you’re ‘color struck,’ it means you can’t like anything but a high yaller.
1946		Drake & Cayton Black Metropolis 496: One color-struck woman told an interviewer that she liked dark-skinned people ‘in their place ... I mean I like them, but not around me’.
1965		C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 139: I ain’t got nothin’ against dark-skin girls. I ain’t never been color struck.
1988		Ebony Feb. 4/3: Prince appears to be color struck. Prince seems to be only attracted to fair-skinned women with ‘good’ hair.
2002		‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 156: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Colorstruck. Babylon. Bananas.