title: AppCompat Light returns black action bar instead of white
body: <p>I have a problem when starting an android project and choose the Holo light, should create a project with the action bar in white color. But I get the action bar in black (and sub menu too).</p>
  
  <p>However if I open a submenu with the menu button instead that from the action bar, on the left bottom, the submenu appears with the style of the Light theme.</p>
  
  <p>Why I get this strange problem?</p>
  
  <p>This is the manifest:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  package="com.example.actionbar"
  android:versionCode="1"
  android:versionName="1.0" &gt;
  
  &lt;uses-sdk
      android:minSdkVersion="9"
      android:targetSdkVersion="19" /&gt;
  
  &lt;application
      android:allowBackup="true"
      android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:theme="@style/AppTheme" &gt;
      &lt;activity
          android:name="com.example.actionbar.MainActivity"
          android:label="@string/app_name" &gt;
          &lt;intent-filter&gt;
              &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
  
              &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
          &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
      &lt;/activity&gt;
  &lt;/application&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>and this is the style.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;resources&gt;
  
  &lt;!--
      Base application theme, dependent on API level. This theme is replaced
      by AppBaseTheme from res/values-vXX/styles.xml on newer devices.
  --&gt;
  &lt;style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light"&gt;
      &lt;!--
          Theme customizations available in newer API levels can go in
          res/values-vXX/styles.xml, while customizations related to
          backward-compatibility can go here.
      --&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;!-- Application theme. --&gt;
  &lt;style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme"&gt;
      &lt;!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. --&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>