Word: colorism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rude to José Carlos' closest comrades: his Afro-Cuban bandmate, Fernando (Chimi Monterrey), and the band's sexy, dusky lead dancer, Isabel (Chela Castro), who clearly has a crush on the oblivious José Carlos. "You lower yourself dancing with that mulatta," Ana Luisa sneers, to which her color-blind beau replies, "It was God's decision that she's of mixed race." Ana Luisa also thinks that his performing in blackface is demeaning, but he shrugs that off with a laugh: "You're very lucky: You're being courted by two men. A white...
...concern is that Travis may be over-interpreting our data,” he said. “In our paper, we made it clear that the apparent variations with color that we tabulated could be due to the telescope and instrument, and thus might not be due to molecules in the planetary atmosphere...
Knutson agreed, saying that Barman’s analysis appears to account for some, but not all, of the color-dependent features in the data that she and Charbonneau collected from the Hubble Space Telescope last year...
...main reason has to do with the Arctic and Antarctic. As polar climates warm enough for trees to move in, the color of that part of the earth will change, as viewed from above. Green trees, which absorb more light, will replace whiter snow and ice, which reflect more rays back to space. Like a dark-colored car hood on a hot day, a dark-colored earth will warm. The group’s computer modeling experiments show that the localized warming due to the change in the earth’s surface reflectivity (called its “albedo?...
...every community, raising memories of beauty bias (against darker skin and kinkier hair) that dates back to slavery. Tracy Riley, 37, of Des Moines, Iowa, who is of mixed race, said the incident was among her four kids' first exposures to overt racism. "Our kids don't see color the way we do," she said. "They don't see it as much. 'You're my friend or not,' but it's not about race...