Word: colorism
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...Disney is setting the record, um, straight, with its release of The Princess and the Frog. The protagonist, Tiana, is Disney's first black princess - and she's got curly hair. Although Tiana's skin color is generating far more buzz than her hairstyle, it would be a mistake to overlook the significance of her coif. There are plenty of black women who spend tons of time, energy and money straightening their hair - including the U.S.'s much imitated First Lady. Disney easily could have bestowed smooth tresses on Tiana, yet it didn...
...develop a negative body image at a very young age. In a new study from the University of Central Florida, nearly half of its 3-to-6-year-old participants fretted about being fat. About a third said they would like to change their appearance - adopt a new hair color, for example, or lose weight. (See the top 10 children's books...
...ones I don't understand, which is most of them. No, I love clouds. The different formations and the color gradations--you can look at them endlessly. You know how a fire is so hypnotic? Clouds are much the same...
...tucked behind her right ear, sighs that her male secretaries don't know how to care for flowers. Fukuda is settling in as the upcoming session of the Diet, Japan's parliament, approaches. Her office is filled with bouquets and orchids sent by well-wishers, adding a splash of color to the building's dreary halls - as does Fukuda herself. At age 29, she is the country's youngest member of the Diet; her pink cell phone with a tiny plush Chihuahua dangling from it, her pink blouse and black flats with bows until recently would have seemed grossly...
...America. Morales, first elected in 2005, was the continent's Barack Obama before there was Obama. He is an Aymara Indian and former coca-growers union leader who won the presidential palace while still in his 40s, just decades after a time when Bolivians of his class and skin color weren't even allowed to vote. Morales hit the global stage with retro, Che Guevara-inspired leftist politics and colorful Aymara fashions. But the real question was whether he could actually govern and even improve South America's poorest and most volatile nation. (See the 10 worst dressed world leaders...