Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic photograph of his subject plus ten to 30 other pictures which furnish supplementary data on head construction, facial forms and expressions revealed by the different camera angles and lighting. I have searched thousands of photographs for facial forms, from bony structure and musculature, through talebearing wrinkles down to skin texture. I have found that this detached objective exploration of a person's features brings forth the subject's appearance and his character with surprising fidelity...
Corder: Now Joe, the fact that somebody happens to have a different color of skin, or speak a different language, doesn't mean that he's inferior...
This was mighty strange stuff to be going to the President of the U.S. In one of the four boxes there was "a red fox Skin Containing a Magpie." In another "the bones & Skeleton of a Small burrowing wolf." A third contained a tin box of "insects mice...
...always there. Lamming remembers his pal Boy Blue explaining: "Just as I wus goin' to born the light went out." And Lamming himself testifies: "No black boy wanted to be white, but it was also true that no black boy liked the idea of being black. Brown skin was a satisfactory compromise . . . The best-looking girls in the village were those whose mothers had consorted with white men . . . One was known throughout the island-as the crystal sugar cake...
...Castle of My Skin should make instructive reading for colonial administrators. Author Lamming remembers how things were, can still reproduce faithfully the political confusion of the islanders, as well as he can record the quarreling speech of a village strumpet: "I could give your story to the worl'. but people who is people don't do that sort o' thing. You ain't people. Baby Parker. You foot never touch shoe nor you head hat. You ain't people...