Word: colorism
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...When a New Yorker named James Brunot contacted Butts about mass-producing the game, he readily handed the operation over. Brunot's contributions were significant: he came up with the iconic color scheme (pastel pink, baby-blue, indigo and bright red), devised the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles to make a word, and conceived the name "Scrabble." The first Scrabble factory was an abandoned schoolhouse in rural Connecticut, where Brunot and several gracious friends manufactured 12 games an hour. When the chairman of Macy's discovered the game on vacation and decided to stock his shelves with...
...freshness, the Players sought out the help of professional set painter Peter Miller. Miller led two workshops, the first on set design and the second on set painting. “He taught us very practical approaches, like how to consider different perspectives in the theatre, how to consider color, and how to go about rendering your set design concept,” says first-time set designer Stephany Y. Lin ’11, who cites Art Nouveau designs as inspiration for her concept.“‘Iolanthe’ has a very fantastical, imaginative premise...
...Passion for Blue & White (Broadway Books) Interior designer Carolyne Roehm examines her fascination with the color scheme that has served as a constant inspiration throughout her 35 years in fashion and decorating...
This means that the apologetic angst of the confused party is usually overblown. The fact is that one has to look to different physical cues when identifying people of different races. When I meet another South Asian girl, I am not going to look to her hair or eye color as a distinguishing feature. Rather, I’ll instinctively note other physical features, like eye shape or the texture of her hair. These visual markers could easily escape someone who has grown up in an environment with few or no South Asians—someone who has never before...
...races fail at identifying ethnic minorities. When I was traveling in Tanzania last summer, my two Caucasian traveling companions, a redhead and a brunette, were constantly frustrated that many Tanzanians couldn’t differentiate between them. They didn’t understand that the marker of hair color was overlooked by Tanzanians, who do not usually identify by this feature. Just like an art professor would look in amazement at a first-year student who comes out of a Georgia O’Keefe exhibit and says, “I can’t tell these paintings apart...