Word: colored
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...issue with Obama for me is I'm amazed - and I shouldn't be - at the number of people of color who don't support him when he's a person of color who supports policies that would benefit persons of color...
Because in American culture, African-American ancestry is what's called a "master status." So regardless of what he does, if there's any black blood in his heritage, he's considered black. It's what I referred to in The Color Complex, my first book, as the "one-drop theory." You only need one minor element of black blood to be defined as black...
...like to use the term. It's a folk term. Here's a folk definition: Racism exists between blacks and whites. Colorism is a kind of racism that exists among people of color, based on skin color...
...excited about the prospect of networking with people of color because we’re so spread out all across campus,” said Norma Stewart, a School of Engineering and Applied Sciences administrative manager...
...Xiaodong was too lost in his delicate brushstrokes - too deep in the trash heap beneath an East Naples underpass - to notice his visitors: a pair of helmetless (and humorless) teenagers, who had quietly rolled in on a moped as the star Chinese painter added touches of color to his latest en plein air work of social neo-realism...