"Had Anita Hill been white or been a light-skinned black person or maybe even Latina or a light-skinned Asian woman, people would have viewed her differently," Perry says.
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Funnily enough, being light skinned has made me feel uncomfortable.
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She's very light-skinned, which ties into my understanding of myself.
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She also claimed she told police the shooter was light skinned.
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Pusha T: "I'm light-skinned but I'm still a dark nigga"?
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I mean, this guy only just saw me as light skinned.
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Light skinned Black girls were more acceptable, beautiful, seen, and heard.
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My mother and I are very light skinned, with light eyes.
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Another dataset, IJB-A, uses subjects that are 79 percent light-skinned.
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Both had light-skinned male error rates of less than one percent.
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Some people are quite light-skinned and some are quite dark-skinned.
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"Girl, shut yo light-skinned ass up," Molly replies, while Issa cackles.
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Sam is light-skinned with natural hair and little, if any, makeup.
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Saldana is light-skinned and of Dominican Republican and Puerto Rican descent.
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She was light-skinned, with beautiful, thick hair, and she said, 'Ah!
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In another, light-skinned, phallus-shaped male hunters track down female prey.
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I am light-skinned, but I am still a person of color.
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She was light-skinned to my darker complexion, slim to my chubby.
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They all had error rates below 1 percent for light-skinned males.
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For this film, we spoke to dark-skinned and light-skinned individuals.
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One, I'm a light-skinned person and colorism is a real thing.
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Adience, one gender classification benchmark, uses subjects that are 86 percent light-skinned.
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"My mother initially thought I was just a light-skinned baby," he said.
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The shooter in the Martin case, George Zimmerman, is a light-skinned Hispanic.
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Aries went off on a jag about "light-skinned n****s" being loud.
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Will Smith was a light-skinned Black guy (like me!), funny (like me
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In one photo, a black woman seemingly transformed into a light-skinned woman.
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The suspects were both described by police as light-skinned men wearing hoodies.
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Even in the color code, there's light-skinned black versus dark-skinned black.
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But then you can have a light-skinned black kissing a white woman.
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Danii says she told cops the man was a light-skinned black male.
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After undergoing a wash, the man emerges as a light-skinned, clean Chinese man.
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But just because I'm light-skinned, that doesn't negate my blackness in any way.
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I've already heard people say that he's too light-skinned to be my son.
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I've gone through the whole light-skinned/dark-skinned thing back in the '90s.
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Does that include the dark skinned multiracial women or just the light skinned ones?
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People have come at you hard, calling you out for being light-skinned Latino.
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In India, for example, most successful movie stars and social figures are light skinned.
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By contrast, the error rate rate for light-skinned males was less than one percent.
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And, yes, even light-skinned Arab artists have built careers off black culture as well.
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I am light-skinned, but I am the darkest of both sides of my family.
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If they do, they will unfailingly be light-skinned to white-passing, straight, and commodifiable.
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For the record, we're told the stand-in is a light-skinned African-American kid.
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" Evans is described as a 5'5" light-skinned Black female, with brown hair and eyes.
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First, the object-detection models had mostly been trained on examples of light-skinned pedestrians.
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A DECADE ago Guatemala's hotels were full of light-skinned foreigners with dark-skinned babies.
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There is a long history of light-skinned African-Americans forming exclusive communities among themselves.
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It's a shift for an industry that tends to favor light-skinned Black women artists.
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It's possible that some populations of Neanderthals, too, were light-skinned, and others dark-skinned.
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Microsoft's dark-skinned female error rate was 20.8 percent and effectively zero for light-skinned males.
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Even being a light-skinned actress, I know that I am a palatable version of blackness.
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I can't go into a room and just sort of exist as a light-skinned person.
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He was a very light-skinned guy; his mom was black and his father was Jewish.
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As a light-skinned black man, his narrator feels like a minority tucked inside a minority.
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Some have criticized the choice, arguing that Smith is too light-skinned to play Richard Williams.
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The shooter in the Martin case, George Zimmerman, is a light-skinned Hispanic and Martin was black.
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The maximum error rate for light-skinned males, on the other hand, was less than 1 percent.
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Among black people there's a long history of viewing light-skinned blacks as more attractive or accomplished.
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At the front of the line stood a light-skinned black man who was covered in freckles.
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Yes, I get very odd messages about being light-skinned that I would prefer to not get.
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Why is Missy so adamant that the light-skinned model be replaced by a darker-skinned woman?
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Rachel, light-skinned and physically attractive, was the sort of slave after whom many white men lusted.
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"Every Black woman I saw was really light-skinned, or had straight, blonde hair," Lizzo, 30, said.
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Societies award light-skinned people with beauty and wealth-related power due to their proximity to whiteness.
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I am black and raising light-skinned, mixed-race boys who can pass for white in Brooklyn.
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Other Black people can make sure that light-skinned Black people are cognizant of their privilege. 17.
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Light-skinned men tend to be cast as bottoms, while darker-skinned are likelier to be tops.
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Light skinned with reddish hair, Mr. Franklin was a raconteur who relished being the center of attention.
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Nor, for that matter, have men here suddenly abandoned their decades-long pursuit of light-skinned women.
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"My younger sisters were light-skinned and I was dark," said Comfort Arthur, 31, an animated filmmaker.
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Accra — Lome, Monrovia and Lagos as well — are teeming with ads that depict beauty as light-skinned.
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Pat believes she is mixed race, and being light-skinned creates social awkwardness for her at school.
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In June 1967, I walked across the quad of Howard University, a light-skinned, 22000-year-old sophomore.
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This time, it from light-skinned black students, who suggested Rogers' darker skin shade made her less beautiful.
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Besides light-skinned or "brown" men, only dark-skinned men with naturally straight hair were allowed to join.
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Johnson, whose parents had both been enslaved, was so light-skinned that he could be mistaken for white.
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Gotta light skinned friend look like Lucious Mama Gotta dark skinned friend look like Lucious Mama #Empire pic.twitter.
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" Ali was a 6'3" light-skinned black man in a world that agreed with his self-proclaimed handsomeness.
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The witness, who was blind in one eye, said the killer had been a light-skinned Hispanic man.
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What would people think if he were to bring a dark-skinned girl into their light-skinned family?
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That... well we need to make sure that this guy is light-skinned, or a typical Hollywood type.
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The light-skinned Kevin has nicknamed Chiron Black, and he asks why, wondering if it's a put-down.
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A member of the country's light-skinned élite, he has been repeatedly accused of enriching himself in office.
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It uses imagery of primarily light-skinned men and only offers three concealer shades and five foundation shades.
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Mason is described as a light-skinned African American woman who is 4 feet 11 inches and 130 lbs.
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Mr Key is from Detroit, but light-skinned; Mr Peele grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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One of my closest friends, who is darker-skinned, faced such a conundrum when marrying a light-skinned woman.
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What's more, I realized that all of the stories I read, and wrote, featured white or light-skinned characters.
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And this is coming from the perspective of someone who has a loose curl pattern and light-skinned privilege.
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My son is not the only light-skinned, mixed or biracial person I know who identifies primarily as black.
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Hazel's reputation as a combative member of the LHHH cast was tarnished even further when she, a light-skinned Black woman, went on several social media tirades about dark-skinned women, referring to them as "dark butts" and insisting that they hated her because she was light-skinned and thus prettier than them.
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Because I grew up with my white mom and I'm light-skinned, people will invalidate the fact that I'm Black.
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When Saldana, 37, was ultimately cast, people began raising their concerns over choosing a light-skinned actress to portray Simone.
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Mistral also offers a smaller suicide drone called the Hero 30 that can take out troops and light skinned vehicles.
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Instead his is a very light-skinned black woman -- but you've gotta see her describe her first meeting with Ron.
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One simply warned of a "light-skinned black female" walking her dog in the neighborhood while talking on her phone.
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A light-skinned man with long blond hair and brown eyes lies in a makeshift bed in a distant campsite.
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For instance: Is anybody up for a light-skinned black actor to play Dwight Eisenhower as a West Point cadet?
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But his age and the perception that he is a light-skinned foreigner have weighed on his second presidential bid.
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The protagonist of "The Owl Answers," a one-act from 1965, is a light-skinned ("pallid") black woman named Clara.
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Most people who saw Otis perform during his heyday in the 1950s thought he was a light-skinned black man.
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Two were black and another, smiling faintly, was light-skinned, suggesting he might be from an Arab or Tuareg group.
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Even the local Latino teachers that I had were either light-skinned or trigueño — a mix between indigenous and European.
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The sources included three African nations with predominantly dark-skinned populations, and three Nordic countries with mainly light-skinned residents.
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In 2017, many people were frustrated by a wax figure that was too light-skinned, and then became too orange.
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One sent a picture of his whole family because he was light-skinned and wanted to prove he was black.
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She also posted several photos of popular light-skinned entertainers in Mexico who darkened their skin to portray a character.
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Jerri is white and Tom is black — it should not matter that he is light-skinned, but here it does.
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As we reported ... Williams went off when Aries cracked a joke, at Zo's expense, saying "light-skinned n****s" get loud.
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We, the Creole kids, the light-skinned kids, we had been integrating schools for a lot longer because we weren't dark.
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I love you Charlottesville, and as Thomas Jefferson once said, 'Who's that hot, light-skinned girl over by the butter churn?
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Soon afterwards his passenger, a young, light-skinned black woman with a busted lip, is found dead in a trash heap.
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Her mother believes that this is just the inevitably plight of a light-skinned person, and she's not entirely off-base.
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On the surface, director Jon M. Chu succeeds in transposing light-skinned Asian faces onto the conventions of a romantic comedy.
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Because that teacher was so light-skinned, "I wouldn't have assumed we could connect around something like that," Thomas-Rennie says.
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I learned about Adrian Piper years ago and always remembered her name because I, too, am black but very light-skinned.
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You'll recall ... Williams unleashed punch after punch after punch when Spears joked "light skinned n***as" like Zo always get loud.
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In a lineup, his photograph was the only one among the six images to be that of a light-skinned man.
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Yes, Ms. Hanks has serious business in mind: Thalia, protective of her light-skinned privilege, resists marrying Streeter, who is darker.
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He also has his father, my husband, a white man of Italian descent, which accounts for our son's light-skinned appearance.
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The child, Dulce Maria Alavez, may have been taken by a light-skinned, possibly Hispanic male, the Bridgeton Police department said.
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Both were light-skinned Hispanic men, about five and a half feet tall, with brown eyes, lopsided noses, and peaked ears.
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Adding a black face, one black face, one very light-skinned, pretty black face is not going to change the institution.
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All they know is that you're Chinese, if you're light-skinned and have small eyes, like the Koreans, Japanese, or Vietnamese.
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Buolamwini found that all of the programs had the highest error rates for dark-skinned women and the most accurate results with light-skinned men, but that IBM Watson had the highest disparity in the error rates between dark-skinned women and light-skinned men (the error rate was 34.4 percent higher for dark-skinned women).
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Prosecutors said Damache sought to recruit light-skinned women and others who did not fit the traditional terrorist profile to wage jihad.
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But by choosing to participate in the casting of a light-skinned actress to play Simone, they are doing the exact opposite.
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It seemed to re-emphasize how she was always forced to play second fiddle to her light-skinned friend Sam (Logan Browning).
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The title refers to her, who is the "fairest" and most desirable according to the print, due to her light-skinned complexion.
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Usually, niggas that get in trouble for shit like this on their magnitude of celebrity, it's light-skinned women or white women.
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You're going to find more light-skinned emoji on Twitter, and that's simply because there are just more white people on Twitter.
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The examination of facial-analysis software showed error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.
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And it is a delivery: Isaiah, the light-skinned house slave, tells Esther's husband that a white man has requested his wife.
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Macho car guys may make snide remarks, and the light-skinned or the overly coiffed will worry about sunburns and mussed hair.
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A light-skinned emoji is described by Siri as having "light skin tone," whereas Unicode describes the varied skin colors with numbers.
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Among other factors, Crosson, the sole witness to the crime, had described the carjackers as being light-skinned men in their 20s's.
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What was up with the retinue of light-skinned, long-legged women, who were visually identical to one another and to him?
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A few rows back, she clambers over several audience members to get to a light-skinned black woman wearing blue contact lenses.
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Guys would come and talk to my best friend, who was light skinned with curly hair and blue eyes… the epitome of beauty.
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Today, I still get the whole "Oh, you're not really Black" thing because I'm light-skinned… and probably because I pass as white.
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Usually, ni**as that get in trouble for shit like this on their magnitude of celebrity, it's light-skinned women or white women.
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YOU HAVE COOL UNDERTONES IF… For fair and light-skinned people, your skin will show hints of pink if you have cool undertones.
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Our sources say that's definitely not the case, and confirm the dude in the vid is just a bearded, light-skinned look-alike.
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As a light-skinned black woman with Eurocentric features, her casting reinforces the message that dark-skinned women can't even play themselves onscreen.
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In one movie, she appears as the bereaved, darker-skinned sister of a light skinned woman who has chosen to live as white.
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By highlighting the light-skinned Mary, Mr. Sumner appealed to the prejudices of white Americans who were potentially sympathetic to the abolitionist cause.
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The same whitening is now taking place among the descendants of Asian and light-skinned Latinos, particularly those already in the middle class.
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"What Men Want," starring Taraji P. Henson, was this year's rare big-screen American romance to star a non-light-skinned black woman.
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Not only did the figure not resemble the chart-topping pop star, critics said, but it also appeared to be too light-skinned.
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It's strange that even in a city with such a racially diverse population, all the statues in the church have light-skinned faces.
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A childhood spent surfing, swimming and cruising town in convertibles puts him at increased risk, particularly if he's light-skinned and experienced painful sunburns.
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Known as The Black Flag, Damache was accused of seeking out light-skinned women and others who did not fit the traditional terrorist profile.
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In one sequence, the "tourists" calmly explain to their light-skinned, urban-based Brazilian guides how they are in fact "not white" like them.
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He's light skinned with hazel eyes, which usually means nothing but trouble, but his Texas drawl and mysteriousness should make for a fun experience.
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As noted by Vassar Africana studies professor Joyce Bickerstaff, it was fairly common for light-skinned Black students to apply to colleges like Vassar.
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India's robust industry of lightening products promises to deliver complexions closer to those of Bollywood's leading players, who are almost invariably very light-skinned.
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Since we're quite light-skinned, growing up people assumed we were some kind of white: Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese was mainly what I heard.
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NIGATU: Do you feel like America— [applause] Do you feel like America is ready for another light-skinned black man telling them about hope?
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I see her in public with her light-skinned otter of a boyfriend, but I know your MO. You're like a career side nigga.
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Authorities have released a sketch of the suspect and said witnesses describe him as a light-skinned Latino or white man in his 20s.
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So we learn that volunteers at the 1968 Mexico Games were overwhelmingly light-skinned, upper-middle-class women, chosen over their darker-skinned counterparts.
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There are more of them than you think who could possibly get away with exclusively casting light-skinned, Caucasian-appearing models in their shows.
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Venezuela, too, has a market-dominant minority: the light-skinned, insular elite that historically controlled the country's corporate sector and its staggering oil wealth.
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Both are very light-skinned, and one, the beautiful Clare, chooses to pass, marrying a violently bigoted man who is unaware of her identity.
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There's this one example, from 1931, where a light-skinned black man gets into a car accident, and he's taken to a white hospital.
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Authorities with the Bridgeton Police Department say they are searching for a "light-skinned, possibly Hispanic man," according to CBS Philadelphia and NBC Philadelphia.
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A well-heeled, light-skinned gentleman in a suit on the left stands next to a darker-skinned, shaggy, bearded man on the right.
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On the dating side of things, light-skinned giant Dro is still in the mix, but Molly claims to be setting some new boundaries there.
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Despite being a light-skinned, mixed-race black person, despite growing up in a safe suburban area, this warning was a part of my childhood.
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KSNV-TV reports police say the suspect is a light-skinned black male, 25-30 years of age, with a tattoo just below the neckline.
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In other words, much of the marketing is targeted to very light-skinned women, which obviously excludes many potential users, especially black and Latinx people.
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Witnesses said the attackers wore turbans, were "light-skinned" and spoke a language not native to Burkina Faso, a former French colony in West Africa.
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Other than a few local children, who shout "mzungu"—Swahili for light-skinned foreigner—no one seems especially bothered by the Europeans tinkering with telescopes.
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I find that light-skinned women feel like they should shut up about everything that happens to them because it's worse on the other end.
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Some populations may have been dark-skinned and others light-skinned; or maybe they were all the same color, produced by a blend of variants.
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Her mother, who said her own father was a white Brit and her mother was half African-American and half Native American, was light-skinned.
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His bright yellow shirt — a no-no for light-skinned signers, who typically wear dark clothing to help their hands stand out — didn't help matters.
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Some of the women are white; the only non-white woman prominently featured in the clip is very light-skinned with loosely textured curly hair.
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Dulce Maria Alavez, may have been taken by a light-skinned, possibly Hispanic male, the Bridgeton Police department said Tuesday in announcing an Amber Alert.
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When I was a child, my grandmother would scrub me with a homemade "fairness paste" because I was not as light-skinned as my cousins.
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Two side-by-side billboards on Oxford Street for a casino show African men surrounded by and having fun with white and light-skinned women.
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" He went on ... "Usually, n***** that get in trouble for s*** like this on their magnitude of celebrity, it's light-skinned women or white women.
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The laundry detergent advertisement depicts a light-skinned Chinese woman throwing a black man covered in paint into a washing machine after a bit of flirting.
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Police said they are looking for a light-skinned black male in his early 20s, with long hair tied into a ponytail and a long beard.
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The most important artist to use cartoon animals was George Herriman, a light-skinned African American who passed for white and created Krazy Kat in 1910.
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It should be noted that the woman who loses her makeup is a thin, light-skinned, woman of color with long, loose curls and slanted eyes.
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When he had that line that says 'I got a light-skinned friend looks like Michael Jackson / Got a dark-skinned friend looks like Michael Jackson.
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When the Integrity Act was enacted, black ancestry was widely dispersed in the ostensibly white population because many light-skinned black people had passed as white.
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Azealia felt it was "anti-black" ... making an assumption the premise of the joke is that Cardi B is light-skinned and Azealia is dark-skinned.
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"We brown girls revolt against our own reflections every single time an Indian magazine puts a light-skinned girl on a cover, calling her brown," Johar raps.
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But, all the time I was telling them it was a light-skinned man or boy, but they kept saying Blue's name, so I said Blue did.
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On the surface, it seems the source of Mari's rage toward the middle-class, light-skinned, assimilated Hernandez sisters is one of class mobility and race betrayal.
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But when Boy has a child with Arturo — a girl they name Bird — she learns Arturo is a light-skinned black man who is passing as white.
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Curtis believes his experience as a light skinned black person growing up in Minnesota played a large role in the music he would go on to make.
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Before her advertisements came on the scene, light-skinned women had been pictured as the desired "after" photo in the Black hair makeovers featured in newspaper ads.
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You really wanted Lee to win as a chocolate man and you feel like Team Light-Skinned just came in and she just lost her damn mind.
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Manley said police were looking for either a light-skinned black male or Hispanic male in his 20s, based on descriptions provided by witnesses at the scene.
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A 2018 study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found three major facial-analysis programs were much better at recognizing light-skinned men than darker-skinned women.
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There were the three of us, a family tree in an ombré of mocha next to the caramel complexion of my mom and light-skinned, freckled me.
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Recent research underscores this machine bias, showing that commercial facial-recognition systems excel at identifying light-skinned males, with an error rate of less than 1 percent.
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From the beginning of his career, Prince was unapologetic about his black heritage, which, for a light-skinned, diminutive rocker, he could have easily been coyer about.
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Toomer was the grandson of the first black governor in America, of Louisiana, and grew up in the world of the light-skinned black elite in Washington.
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Go Butler provided the police with a photo of a light-skinned man with thick eyebrows and pearly white teeth and said it was the main suspect.
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Mr. Clerie, who left Haiti in 1959 and did not return until after the 2010 earthquake called him for a life of community service, is light-skinned.
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Secondly, considering how much Simone loved and promoted her dark skin, it is wrong and disrespectful to her legacy to cast a light-skinned actress to play her.
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They say the suspect appears to be a male with a light-skinned complexion, wearing a black hoodie, black pants, and black shoes while carrying a black bag.
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Timbuktu's light-skinned Arab and Tuareg communities have long complained of being persecuted by Malian soldiers, made up mostly of black ethnic groups from the south and center.
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But with Beyoncé's wax figures lacking any resemblance to the singer and also looking a little too light-skinned, critics were concerned with the implications of this statue.
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It's no secret that colorism feels stitched into the music industry, and that most of the visible faces we see in female R&B today are light-skinned.
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A woman assumed to be white was revealed after months to be a light-skinned black, turning the story, and the audience, sharply to questions of racial prejudice.
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In "Imitation of Life" (1959), a light-skinned daughter separates herself from her black mother in order to pass as white, even as it breaks her mother's heart.
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A recent study found that some facial recognition programs incorrectly classify less than 1 percent of light-skinned men but more than one-third of dark-skinned women.
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An Amber Alert later identified a thin-framed, light-skinned man wearing orange sneakers, red pants and a black shirt as a person of interest in Dulce's disappearance.
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We were talking about my younger sister, when this boy told me that she would become more well known than me because she was slim and light skinned.
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A light-skinned, high-caste and religious woman, she ran a secular party championing lower-caste Tamils, whose mustachioed cadres fell to the floor in devotion when she passed.
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If I'm seeing Indian characters on TV, I want them to be Indian, and that extends beyond accents and skin color (incidentally, all four leads are extremely light-skinned).
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Now, don't get me wrong: in asking for a designated space just for LGBTQ Latinos, we've never wanted to segregate ourselves from our light-skinned queer brothers and sisters.
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Police have asked the public to help them find a light-skinned Hispanic man wearing orange tennis shoes who was seen by witnesses luring Dulce toward a red van.
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We get to look into her face and wonder just how light-skinned she was, but we also can see clearly the faces of the white boys taunting her.
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Light-skinned black Americans, even those with two black parents, have, for centuries, been considered to be closer to white people, closer to white ideals about, well, most everything.
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RACE STORIES Abolitionists used a daguerreotype of Mary Mildred Williams, a light-skinned black girl born into slavery, to win over potentially sympathetic white Americans during the 19th century.
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The image is surrounded (trapped or protected) by a field of peanut butter that may remind you that Malcolm X was light-skinned; it is a mulatto-like color.
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" Bashagha says he began to hear reports of Russian involvement over the summer, including from locals who described groups of light-skinned people "taking the roads through the desert.
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A lot of the controversy is rooted in the fact that Saldana is a light-skinned actress of color (of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent) who is essentially donning blackface.
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Unlike the other men on campus who overlook Joelle in favor of her light-skinned friend Sam (Logan Browning), Trevor seems to be enamored with her intellect, beauty, and Blackness.
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Had these engineers come from more racially diverse backgrounds, she wrote, they probably would have been less likely to plug in only images of light-skinned people into their algorithms.
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But the pastor turned away to greet a very old white woman hobbling on a walker, assisted by a young light-skinned black woman with a kind and intrepid face.
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They apparently had been expecting a light-skinned Arab, and instead at a small airport outside Mogadishu that day in March 2003, they had been handed a dark-skinned African.
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Gates contrasts the iconography of Negrophobia with the New Negroes' own cultural productions: family photographs and portraits of well-dressed and inevitably light-skinned African-Americans featured in black periodicals.
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Two other people saw the attack, but the three descriptions ranged from a light-skinned black man to a dark-skinned Hispanic to a tanned white man, the petition said.
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That Rob is light-skinned and thin and Cherise is not, and how that affects their relationship, is a dynamic I'm hoping will be interrogated more in an upcoming season.
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Had it been an affluent, well connected, light skinned Saudi influencer who created the video it would have been used in MBS's propaganda as a sign of progress and reform.
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And unlike the tall, dark-skinned, bearded gunman described by the interviewed woman on the night of the killing, Mr. Odiase was short, light-skinned and, at the time, beardless.
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But regular advertisements for computers, for clothing, for banking services all show light-skinned women playing and frolicking and cooking and being otherwise "fresh" (another code word for lighter-skinned).
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Fans of the singer have called out organizations including L'Oreal, the French cosmetics company, and WikiHow, the how-to website, for using images in which Beyoncé appears more light-skinned.
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That's when the murder suspect, who police believe is light-skinned and lanky, shot at a stopped car carrying a 22006-year-old man and a four-year-old toddler.
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Nina Simone would go ballistic if she knew a light-skinned actress with dark makeup was portraying her in an upcoming biopic ... so say members of the late singer's family.
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My personal favorites, "Summers Over Interlude" and "Child's Play"—barring a line or two about being light skinned and Cheesecake—feel most representative of the direction the album could've gone in.
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The victim described her attacker as a thin, light-skinned man black or Hispanic man with dark hair and a police photo lineup showed Jones alongside five dark-skinned, black men.
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A light-skinned biracial American woman named Taylor, who for years had clung with love to her African roots, has a temporary identity crisis when she learns about this contemporary slavery.
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I was hanging out with my pretty friend Lauren, who's light skinned and short, and about half of the men's basketball team were tailing us, all eager to get her number.
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One criticism of season 1 was its treatment of Joelle, who fell into the trope of a dark-skinned woman rarely rising above sidekick status among her light-skinned best friends.
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For decades, many of us (especially the light-skinned) have heard the mantra "make sure you put on sunscreen" from both experts and family members, as we run out the door.
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CoCo marches to the studio and confronts Sam, accusing her of not being a "real sista" and using light-skinned privilege to become the moral authority on who is woke enough.
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Another study found that three facial-recognition systems — IBM, Microsoft, and China's Megvii — were more likely to misidentify the gender of dark-skinned people (especially women) than of light-skinned people.
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In her first novel, "Abeng" (1984), she introduced Clare Savage, a light-skinned 12-year-old Jamaican girl who befriends the dark-skinned Zoe, whose family squats on Clare's grandmother's farm.
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Two years ago, a laundry detergent company in China ran a television commercial in which the detergent's effectiveness was demonstrated by transforming a black man into a light-skinned Asian man.
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The various Indigenous peoples depicted are largely light-skinned, with draping costumes drawn from Greco-Roman styles, and without many of the piercings and tattoos that were prevalent during the period.
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By contrast, Asian women are seen as naturally inclined to serve men sexually and are also thought of as slim, light-skinned and small, in adherence to Western norms of femininity.
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Friends sometimes argue with her: Ms. Markle is so light-skinned she could pass as white, they say, and, anyway, what relevance does the royal family have in your everyday life?
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The light-skinned black daughter of a woman born in South Africa and a man born in New York, Thandi navigates her student days as an inhabitant of liminal social spaces.
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In classic form, the book follows a light-skinned woman, Maria, "a one-dropper," and her love triangle (of sorts) with two men who have some salient complexions of their own.
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To the Editor: It's hardly surprising that an extremely light-skinned black man might decide he is, as he puts it, "stepping out" of the "flawed and cruel game" of race.
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In One Mile from Heaven (1937), for example, a white woman reporter named Tex investigates the truth behind a light-skinned Black seamstress (Washington) raising a white girl as her own.
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A light-skinned teenager, Tex passed as white as he bareback rode, but family lore has it, the crowd booed when his cowboy hat was bucked off revealing his nappy hair.
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His parents, both light-skinned immigrants of mixed race, dodged landlords and immigration officials by changing the spelling of the family name, and avoided housing covenants by claiming to be Hispanic.
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Many Brazilians saw the images, taken in the predominantly black state of Bahia, as a throwback to Brazil's colonial era, when light-skinned elites enslaved millions of people of African descent.
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"That's where some of this comes from, when you hear people saying that a light-skinned woman can't play a dark-skinned woman when they're both clearly of African descent," he said.
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The Amber Alert described the possible suspect as a light-skinned, Hispanic male between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-8, a thin build, no facial hair and acne on his face.
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The victims' descriptions of the rapist narrowed it down to a light-skinned man with a Spanish accent, no facial hair, possibly in his 21s — it was hardly much to work on.
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After all, Markle is very light-skinned, and many viewers of her work on Suits often assumed that she was white until the show included her character's Black father in a storyline.
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But among them, none are owned and operated by Black women, and their e-commerce sites showcase the kind of ethnically ambiguous, light-skinned models that suggest diversity, without actually embracing it.
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Well, so anecdotally, when Kaitlyn and I had first talked about this episode, I thought what we were going to find was that there were more light-skinned people using darker emoji.
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If AVs are trained with data that includes only light-skinned people as examples of what constitutes a "human," they won't recognize dark-skinned people as also "human" in the real world.
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When Saldana was cast in the role, several people raised concerns with the choice to have a light-skinned actress portray Simone, whose darker skin was a crucial part of her music.
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That campaign showed a "before" and "after" skin close-up with dark-skinned women standing in front of the "before" picture, with light-skinned woman standing in front of the "after" picture.
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Cops believe the serial killer who emerged last year is a lanky, light-skinned Hispanic male in his early 20s, but unfortunately no witnesses have gotten a clear look at his face.
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Last year, the makers of Qiaobi laundry detergent were criticized for an advertisement that depicted a black man being washed with the product, only to turn into a light-skinned Chinese man.
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She also tells the stories of light-skinned individuals who felt isolated from their own families and communities because their skin color made them feel as though they did not fit in.
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A lot of people just see me as I am now, like, the mild mannered light-skinned dude from Atlanta, but I didn't have any access to do anything that I wanted.
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The Nazi regime began by crafting the ideal of Germans (light-skinned, blonde, blue-eyed, etc.) and differentiating them from various groups they described as degenerate (Jews, Romani, people with disabilities, etc.).
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" Cultural critic Jamilah Lemieux tweeted in response: "He wants to be properly credited for helping his white teenaged girlfriend morph into a Canal Street knock-off of a thick light-skinned Black woman.
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She is the exact archetype of a Bollywood star: thin but curvaceous, light-skinned with long, jet-black hair, and able to mold herself according to the whims of legions of male directors.
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Set in a post-apocalyptic Sudan plagued by civil war where the light-skinned Nuru tribe has enslaved the Okere tribe, its main character Onyesonwu was born after her Okere mother was raped.
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A statewide Amber Alert described the possible suspect as a light-skinned, Hispanic male between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-8, a thin build, no facial hair and acne on his face.
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"I knew no one else and thought they were my family," she said of her masters, members of the light-skinned elite known as white Moors in the west African country of Mauritania.
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Then they compared how often the AI models correctly detected the presence of people in the light-skinned group versus how often they got it right with people in the dark-skinned group.
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His two primary questioners were a tall, light-skinned woman with a long, serious face named Markov and a short, pudgy man called Glenndining with hair and skin the same color of brown.
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Born in 1984, Noah spent some of his early years in his grandmother's cramped home in Soweto, where he was the only light-skinned person in sight—and, often, got away with murder.
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We want them to look beautiful without any intervention at all, which is an unachievable goal considering that society's idea of what is beautiful is so narrow: young, skinny, conventionally pretty, light-skinned.
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The researchers then analyzed how often the models correctly detected the presence of people in the light-skinned group versus how often they got it right with people in the dark-skinned group.
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Her fiancé, Tareq — Ms. Sobouh did not want to give his surname, for fear of being criticized for meeting her spouse online — said he wanted a tall, light-skinned woman with religious manners.
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I also happen to be light-skinned (someone who might check "white Hispanic" in a survey) and have been told that I dress and carry myself like an upper-middle-class white American.
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Missy Elliott was kept out of a Raven-Symoné music video early in her career because she didn't "fit the image," and her verse was lip-synched by a thinner, light-skinned actress instead.
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The skin lightening products like Fair & Lovely that my aunt would scrub on me in hopes that I'd look like the ultimate light-skinned Bollywood starlet (Madhuri Dixit or Karisma Kapoor at the time).
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In 1790, the light-skinned free black men of Charleston, South Carolina created the Brown Fellowship Society, a funeral organization for black men that acquired proper burial grounds, supported widows, and educated surviving children.
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Like Desdunes, Plessy was light-skinned—"fair-skinned enough to cause confusion," as Luxenberg puts it, suggesting that Plessy might have been accustomed to passing, as many nominally "colored" people in New Orleans did.
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A Thai beauty company that sells skin-whitening products pulled a recent video advertisement after viewers were offended that the ad showed an actress in blackface and compared her unfavorably to a light-skinned woman.
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In 2013, the Thai company Vernena was accused of mocking people of African descent for an ad that featured a woman who used a berry drink to change her appearance from dark- to light-skinned.
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Because I'm a light-skinned Native American, I had this weird psychological complex going on for a while in middle school where I was sort of thinking that I could pass as a white person.
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In an argument with Roberta, a member of Hillcrest's development staff, Sherri insists that the school's admissions catalog must depict a student body that is visually diverse — so Perry, who is light-skinned, doesn't count.
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It found that although the error rates for determining the gender of light-skinned men never surpassed 1 percent, the same programs failed to identify darker-skinned women up to one-third of the time.
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On her paternal side, she is the product of a long line of whites and extremely light-skinned, straight-haired black property owners and, on her mother Olive's side, mixed-race, planter-class Jamaican immigrants.
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From other migrants, Blessing picked up the vocabulary of her surroundings: the boss was a "connection man"; the light-skinned Tuaregs were known as Arabos; the darker-skinned Toubous were referred to as Black Libyans.
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"In the music industry there's still segregation," said Knowles, explaining that his students found, over a 15 year period, that light-skinned black women found more success on Top 40 radio than their darker-toned contemporaries.
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Some of the backlash against Ms. Roy was focused on the specific use of "good hair," a phrase that has been used as shorthand to describe hair texture associated with white, light-skinned or Asian women.
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Various characters in the movie also float the theory that dating white or light-skinned Black women is a status symbol of sorts for African-American men, a fetish with the aim of elevating one's image.
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In February, the authorities said that DNA collected from her hands during her autopsy helped create a possible suspect profile: an athletic, light-skinned Hispanic or Latino male with short hair and about 30 years old.
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Many have been quick to charge Latinx artists with appropriating black culture with this music, a point well taken when considering many of the scene's current exemplars are not Afro-Latinx but light-skinned or essentially white.
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Back when Richard was part of the group Dirty Money with Diddy and singer Kalenna, she alleged record producer Iovine asked a boardroom of 50 people why the band didn't have two light-skinned women singers instead.
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An adaptation of the Karin Tanabe's 2016 novel The Gilded Years, the drama tells the story of Anita Hemmings, a light-skinned descendant of slaves who hid her race in order to attend college during the 1890s.
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Only a vague description was available of the two men being sought, with witnesses telling police they were "two light skinned black males or dark skin Hispanic males" dressed in all black, according to the sheriff's office.
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Most notably there was the decision to cast the light-skinned Dominican-American Ms. Saldana and, dare I say it, the offensive darkening of her face and eyes in the movie to approximate Simone's dark brown complexion.
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I yelled for my partner — who is, like me, a light-skinned Latino — and we watched for 30 seconds as this man continued to kick our sign, then stomp it and the flags down to the ground.
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In a particularly telling case in 1931, the light-skinned father of Mr. White, the N.A.A.C.P. leader, was struck by a car and mistakenly admitted to the beautifully equipped "white" wing of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
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Starr, the smart and well-rounded main character was played by a light-skinned actress, while her more apparently "ghetto" friends all had darker skin: reiterating the way movies often portray darker skinned actors in a negative light.
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Over the course of the series, she has dated the crème de la light-skinned crème and taken literal dips with a dark-skinned Greek god — hell, she even got Shazza Zulu (Gary Dourdan) from A Different World.
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It's part of the reason why the women she identifies as her competition — Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Ciara — share Tinashe's light-skinned hue, and why despite her modest success in music, she can still garner campaigns with John Frieda.
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El Guero ("the light-skinned one"), has been making and selling the carnitas he learned to make as a boy in Uruapan with his father and uncle to the Mexican community of Pilsen for more than forty years.
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It was customary at the time to paint women's faces with a bloom of light, which meant that for light-skinned subjects, a face would be rendered with more lead white paint, which proved sturdy over the centuries.
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The first being that it's just ridiculous to spend money and effort making a light-skinned actress darker for the role when there are so many dark-skinned actresses who are equally, if not more, qualified to play Simone.
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Being at a school that was predominantly Black, there wasn't any othering because of your hair, but the prettier and more popular girls who the boys fancied were usually mixed race or light skinned and had straighter hair texture.
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This strange ad for Chinese detergent Qiaobi from March 2016 showed a black man being pushed into a washing machine by a Chinese woman and being "laundered" into a light-skinned, young Chinese man, who emerges from the machine.
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For example, a study shows that facial recognition technology error rates were less than 1 percent for determining the gender of light-skinned men, yet these error rates increased by more than 30 percent when identifying dark-skinned women.
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Draped in red and gold, a pair of light-skinned royal oxen, named "Perm" and "Poon", which together form the word "multiply" in Thai, pulled a plough round a ceremonial field nine times, accompanied by court Brahmins and government officials.
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Amara tells TMZ, the haters who have lashed out at Spice are all wet for attacking Spice over a photo that was designed to mock those who believe light-skinned African American women are more beautiful than their dark-skinned counterparts.
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From the female protagonist being a light skinned girl named Roxanne, to the white boy named Bobby (voiced by Pauly Shore) getting in just as much trouble as Max, but somehow feeling way less worried about his parents finding out.
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But there are Black Americans whose trauma from decades of racism leads them to cultivate themselves into a world of the light-skinned elite, and a world where they hope they will be safer, more compatible with the American Dream.
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"I'm a light-skinned black woman who doesn't really have to change how I talk to assimilate so I have a lot of privilege over people who are darker, bigger, [or talk] differently," Nicole Weaver, an entertainment reporter, told Refinery29.
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In a Roxbury, Massachusetts bakery and soup kitchen, Abrams performed 'Rules to Follow When You Are a Really Light-Skinned Black Person'; her personae embody disparate parts of her racial identity while reflecting society's assumptions about what those identities mean.
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There are several indelible poems here from her 2002 collection "Bellocq's Ophelia," written in the persona of a light-skinned black prostitute who was photographed by E.J. Bellocq, the photographer who took haunting portraits in Storyville, New Orleans' red-light district.
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His daughter, Willie, embodies the Great Migration, sings gospel, marries a light-skinned man who deserts her to pass for white, has her own skin subjected to the paper-bag test, and takes in a minstrel show while she's at it.
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I thought back to those days on Sosúa beach, but I put off making a braiding appointment because of one concern: Can I, as a light-skinned Latina with looser curls, wear a hairstyle that's so meaningful to Black women?
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" It was dangerous, as a light-skinned child, to be seen with his mother as well: "She would hold my hand or carry me, but if the police showed up she would have to drop me and pretend I wasn't hers.
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Like a bizarre, inexplicable slice of Southern Gothic, it depicts, in the shadows, a blindfolded, apparently light-skinned man in a long, white nightshirt, his trousers pulled down to expose his genitals, hanging from a noose attached to a leafy tree branch.
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After she overhears Dani implying that Justin — a Good Day USA producer who is light-skinned with green eyes — is smart because he might have a white parent, Mary Jane lets her have it (and not just because Justin is Mary Jane's boo).
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Their kidnappers, she said, were an elderly man with a graying beard who the girls nicknamed "Baba" — meaning uncle — and a younger, light-skinned man who looked like the Fulani herders whose cows often grazed just beyond her family's mud-walled home.
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The 2015 thriller The Perfect Guy put a slight spin on the concept by placing a woman in a lethal love triangle with Morris Chestnut and Michael Ealy, and tweaked the racial subtext through a light-skinned/dark-skinned dichotomy between black men.
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Young, beautiful, with deep blue-black skin and a career in the cosmetics industry, she was rejected as a child by her light-skinned mother, Sweetness, who's been poisoned by that strain of color and class anxiety still present in black communities.
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Early political works like "White People in West Africa" (1989/1991/703) — a series of photographs that show light-skinned people "helping" (as educators or missionaries) the local Africans — are critical in a fairly obvious manner, recreating the positions set up by colonialism.
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This new one features whimsical art and a recurring character, a sprightly spotted dog making its way through its day; when two children appear toward the end, one is dark-skinned, one light-skinned, also a needed update for this kind of book.
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So it's profound to me that my light-skinned son, who identifies as both mixed and black, was upset when he started sixth grade last fall at a new school where his new racially diverse peer group expressed confusion about his background.
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The driver is Latino and while the woman is light-skinned, she is Greek and also identifies as a minority, Jimenez said, noting that the two had been pulled over just days after a Minnesota police shot and killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop.
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After Stern asked if the show would feature "very dark blacks or light-skinned blacks," Trump joked that there would be "an assortment" of people with lighter and darker black skin tones, but that the white contestants would be made up of nine blondes.
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As a fellow light-skinned biracial woman, I know how tempting it can be to try to avoid the topic of race altogether or act as a chameleon to fit in — especially because expressing pride in your heritage can provoke hatred or even prevent you from opportunities.
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Bellocq's Ophelia centers on the story of a light-skinned black woman who is a prostitute in New Orleans just before World War I. Thrall is somewhat of a sibling to Native Guard — where Trethewey examines America's racial stereotypes and confronts her relationship with her father.
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And I'm just so grateful to be on a show where people love me, Taystee, for who she is – and they've come to love Danielle for who I am, and it's not because I'm a size 2 and it's not because I'm light-skinned with long hair.
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" And he has sweepingly denounced American Negroes in the civil rights movement as people who secretly think: "I'm gonna get me a light-skinned girl, nearest to white I can find, and a long cigarette and a fancy car and I won't associate with those blacks.
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Growing up, Donald was light-skinned and sunny, and his friends were the white kids at his school for the performing arts; Stephen was darker-skinned and stoic, and his friends were the bused-in black kids at his school, which was not for the performing arts.
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Maria Pierce, a light-skinned "one-dropper" adopted and raised by a black mother, is engaged to Khalil Mirsky, a half-black half-Jewish part-time technology consultant whose passion project, "an online community of like-minded souls," is as contemporary and cool as his dreadlocks.
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In one, he learns how to "pivot" white acquaintances away from subjects like Peruvian politics, only to repel them with talk about needlepoint; in another, his lecture of a white "lacrosse bro" goes horribly awry when it turns out that his target is a light-skinned Colombian.
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The oppression faced by different groups is different, to be sure, but this makes it all the more vital for, say, citizens to advocate for noncitizens, and for light-skinned individuals to protest police violence in ways that would place dark-skinned individuals at mortal risk.
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One room of the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bern features some of Cahn's most sexually charged images, including one showing a dark, bear-like figure and its light-skinned partner leaning over a gray, rectangular form, their red-lipped faces delirious as they pound away in an intimate act.
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"As somebody who feels guilty as a light-skinned black person, as someone who feels empowered because she is a woman of color, she navigates that space and she is forced to come to grips with the white side of her and how she relates to that," Browning said.
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"I think that it would be handled very beautifully by me, because, as you know, I'm very diplomatic," he told Stern, adding that while there would be a mix of light-skinned and dark-skinned black contestants, the white team would consist solely of people with blond hair.
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That assumption is what leads to Becca Kufrin's all-white final three suitors and the fact that every single man to completely finish Paradise, whether that be in a fully committed relationship or as a fiancé, has been a white man, save for the biracial, light-skinned Grant Kemp.
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For my part, I am a native of Liberia, but a descendant of the freed American slaves who colonized the country in 1822 and who had mated at one point or another with American whites, so I'm more of a coffee with milk, considered light-skinned by West African standards.
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It's not just the bleach cream ads, and there are plenty of those — including one on Liberation Road, less than a kilometer from the Accra airport as you make your way into the city, that says "Perfect White," under a photo of a smiling, light-skinned model with a ponytail.
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But Genesis and her family are still haunted by the past — including her dark-skinned father's self-loathing and grief over a childhood tragedy and the prejudice of her light-skinned mother's family, who use "the paper bag test" to judge acceptable skin color (a test Genesis herself doesn't pass).
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"So because I point out that you get away with being the typical caricature of a black woman that society says is wrong … and you respond by calling me unattractive and bringing up skin bleaching to basically make fun of me for not being light skinned?" she wrote in a series of tweets.
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So it's no surprise race is a prime area for implicit bias, and if you live in America, you can probably make an educated guess about some of the ways it tends to play out: among other things, there's a widespread preference for light-skinned over dark-skinned and white over black.
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Those conversations continued the following month, when Rodriguez co-hosted, with the Latina actor America Ferrera, a Latina "power lunch" whose attendees were noticeably light-skinned; with the exception of Rosario Dawson, it appeared that no Afro-Latina women were present, raising questions about how many the two hosts had actually invited.
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On a recent afternoon, Negga was at a cafe in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, discussing her second stab at "Hamlet," as well as her upcoming role in "Passing," a feature film based on Nella Larsen's 1929 novel about two light-skinned black women, one of whom passes for white.
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Makeup should be for everyone to love and use, and when brands still have 50 shades of beige, especially now days when brands are coming out with 40+ shades for ALL skin tones, it just looks like you guys don't care for darker skin colored people as much as you do for light skinned people.
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A study in 2012 by Andrew Francis of Emory University and Maria Tannuri-Pinto of the University of Brasília (UnB) found that some mixed-race but light-skinned applicants to UnB, which introduced quotas in 2004, thought of themselves as white but said they had black heritage to improve their chances of getting in.
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Read more: A bakery worker helped cops nab her co-worker as a cold case murder suspect by stealing his discarded Coke can for DNA evidence Eyewitnesses in the parking lot identified the robber as a "light-skinned Hispanic or African-American man" named Rick who had "long hair pulled back," according to CNN.
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"With social media is when I started to hear the terms LatinX and Afro-Latino and I started to differentiate — 'So I'm a black Puerto Rican,'" Cynthia Branch, an Afro-Puerto Rican who grew up around mostly light-skinned Latinas, said at an April meetup of Afro-Latinas in Harlem promoted through the @Blactina account.
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Set between Newark, New Jersey, Greenwich Village and a fictional college town in New England, it traces the life of one Coleman Silk, a light-skinned black man disfigured by internalized racism (or is he just too principled to submit to the absurdity of our society's racial caste system?) who is passing for Jewish.
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As Sean told the story of Ellen Craft, a light-skinned enslaved woman who escaped with her husband, William Craft, into freedom by passing as a white man and posing as his master, I saw my daughter smile — a smile that spoke to the pride of coming to this moment through a history of resistance.
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Its function as a survival practice was first articulated by Black writers of the Harlem Renaissance, like Nella Larsen, to describe the experience of light-skinned Black Americans passing as white, both intentionally and unintentionally, during and after the period of chattel slavery in order to access wealth, privilege, and safety that a racist society would not afford them.
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"There's no way you're going to be able to monetize reparations — you'd split families," said Clyburn, recalling his late wife's great-grandfather, who was white, and noting the difficulty of determining who would qualify for reparations given people of mixed-race heritage and the number of light-skinned African Americans who have lived "passing" as white.
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Just like it wasn't okay for Chris Rock to make fun of Asians at the Oscars when they're even less represented in acting fields than black people, it's not okay that a light-skinned, mainstream black actress like Saldana — who previously admitted in an interview with InStyle she wasn't right for the part — didn't turn down the role of Simone.
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That said, those I do see are almost always racially fueled—how I, even as a very light-skinned women, am still too dark to cosplay as Kaneki [Tokyo Goul], how my lips are too big to "accurately" portray Misty [Pokémon], how Raven [Teen Titans] is my "best" cosplay because I based my skin with a grayish purple face paint.
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Her first essay, "Notes on Speechlessness," written for a women's writing group in 21987, can be read as the keynote for her subsequent work, which navigated the complexities of her life situation — she was a light-skinned black lesbian raised partly in Jamaica and partly in New York, and educated in Britain — against the broader background of the Caribbean experience.
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"There were the three of us, a family tree in an ombré of mocha next to the caramel complexion of my mom and light-skinned, freckled me," But the actress shares that it wasn't until later in life that she began to examine her identity based on her skin's color — and to this day, she's constantly being questioned about her heritage.
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I assumed that it was a little vacation sex because he had the misfortune of traveling to a beautiful locale during the off-season, that he was without a girlfriend, and that the woman he was sleeping with in New York, a pretty little young light-skinned thing or a naïve white girl, couldn't be taken on the trip without assuming that it meant something more than it was.
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This is the world in which we meet Maria Pierce and Khalil Mirsky, two light-skinned, mixed race black people who want it all and are on track to get it: a Brooklyn brownstone, a wedding at a lighthouse in Martha's Vineyard with nouveau soul food, a dog named Thurgood, and two children "with skin the color of burnished leather" and "hair the color of spun gold" named Indigo and Cheo.
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I wanted every element of that flag to have some type of representation: The brown stripes speak to the varying spectrum of color we are (light-skinned slaves were in the house and darker slaves were in the field); and we are all interwoven in that trauma of skin tone; the gray represents the years of oppression and it's ongoing; the black box represents the black experience exclusive to this country.
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As I watched the two main characters in "He Brought Her Heart Back"—a well-off young white guy named Chris (Tom Pecinka) and a light-skinned black woman named Kay (Juliana Canfield), in the segregated Georgia of the nineteen-forties—my mind drifted to Kennedy's other plays, the majority of which are suffused with memory and a child's question: Why can't life work out, be the dream it should be, like a song?
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In "Bad Behavior," a mother sends her 24.10.81-year-old daughter to live with her grandmother in Jamaica because she's scared of her burgeoning sexuality; in "Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowland," an NYU freshman grapples with the fact that a fellow Jamaican student lives that same identity in a very different way; and in "Mermaid River," a teenager finally joins his mother in Brooklyn after being raised by his grandmother in Jamaica, and is saddened to find a stranger.
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His films were overtly political, as seen in their spectrum of subjects, including the impossible dream of interracial marriage; the hostility of light-skinned blacks to darker-skinned ones; the great moral cost of trying to pass as white; the unjustified arrest of blacks on trumped-up offenses and the use of black prisoners' forced labor by white business owners; the legal chicanery that kept neighborhoods segregated; and the ills, such as bootlegging, gambling, and prostitution, that afflicted black communities deprived of education and opportunities.
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