dark-skinned

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• The curly haired, dark-skinned child who stared up at him with “hero-worship” adoration was oblivious to the fact that his white shirt was pulled halfway out of the waist of his pants or that his clip-on bow-tie was askew. Who Said It Would Be Easy
• Their mom was a dark-skinned black woman and their dad a fair-skinned Dominican. True You
• This article looks at the roots of colourism and how it has impacted the interaction of dark-skinned women with light-skinned women.
• As the story goes, nationally televised images of well-dressed children marching into jail, and of protesters being blasted with hoses and attacked by German shepherds, at a time when the United States was engaged in a competition with Communism for the hearts and minds of dark-skinned people in the Third World, made segregation a contradiction that had to be eliminated. A Renegade History of the United States
• He was a wonderful dark-skinned white man with jet-black hair who was often mistaken for a light-skinned black man.
• A caste system that novelist Alice Walker termed "colorism" has existed within the black community since slavery, stemming from the hierarchy established by slave masters for the light-skinned blacks who worked in the house and dark-skinned slaves who tended the fields. MultiCultClassics
• One of the relatives is a dark-skinned Chicano-looking male named Jesus with a goatee, dark sunglasses, a ponytail and a guayabera.
• She went over to stand by the gorgeous dark-skinned woman, Uhura, and her own crewwoman Aidoann, while the captain, with occasional snickerings, read the document the lieutenant had brought him. Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
• The victims of this war are the same dark-skinned people whose deaths we ignore in order to sacralize our own, far less numerous ones. A Holy Day in the Empire
• This article looks at the roots of colourism and how it has impacted the interaction of dark-skinned women with light-skinned women.