Word: negroid
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...good. "I was always ashamed," John recalls. "I never brought my friends home. My room was in the basement-cement floor, cement walls. I just grabbed music and withdrew." Some of that anguish comes out in John's song Porterville, which he belts out with a soulful Negroid delivery...
...hearing in circuit court, Damaschke was surprised to find that Judge Halford Streeter was not at all impressed by such precedents. Streeter was far more concerned about the fact that Scott's Negroid characteristics proved that Damaschke was not the boy's father -even though no one claimed that he was. More important, the judge made it clear that racial integration is not particularly popular in Port Huron, where the Damaschkes live. "I am a politician," said Streeter. "I get around the county, or I wouldn't have been elected three times, and I know...
...According to Hollywood Talent Agent Bill Cunningham, the new Negro stereotype created by TV commercials derives at least in part from the notion that white buyers "won't go for actors who have very Negroid features. What we all see are the very attractive Negroes who, if you bleached their skins white, you'd think were Caucasian." Adds one agency talent director: "If they sound like Negroes, they haven't got a chance. They have to look like Negroes and sound like white people...
...dark skin that usually, though not invariably, characterizes members of the Negroid race may also be a protective device. If man was first born in tropical Africa, as some anthropologists now suggest, then it is possible that his skin, whatever color it may have been to begin with, took on added pigment-again, starting with chance mutation-as a screen against harmful radiation from the sun. It is a fact that Negroes seldom have skin cancer, though its incidence is rising noticeably in the white population of the U.S. The same pigment, by filtering solar radiation, impedes synthesis of vitamin...
...list of apparently Negroid characteristics can be extended, since dark-skinned persons come in so many shapes and sizes, from the storklike Watutsi, to the Pygmies of Central Africa. Generally, Negro skull capacity-affecting the size of the brain-runs about 50 cc. below that of whites...