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  • He was a lean, wiry, dark-skinned man in a white jubbah, shorter than Tuthmes and with his Negroid ancestry more prominent in his features. Conan of Cimmeria
  • She was dark-skinned, like Eko and Sri, but square-built, with soft plump hands, and warm brown eyes buried in wrinkles.
  • Inspired by his hero H. L. Mencken, always on the lookout for hypocrisy, Thurman found it in the uneven way that color prejudice is applied to dark-skinned women.
  • The resulting videos seem to reinforce the stereotypic idea that dark-skinned black women are not as attractIve as their lighter sisters.
  • All of a sudden, a beautiful dark-skinned girl walked in, her black hair sweeping behind her in a flowing curtain.
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  • Dark-skinned people rarely develop skin cancer.
  • Over and over he filmed the scenario of a light-skinned women passing as white, and a dark-skinned man ignoring a women of his own shade to aspire to that wan princess.
  • The "browning" of America by dark-skinned immigrants can not morally be a concern. Discourse.net: The Moral High Ground
  • Dark-skinned people rarely develop skin cancer.
  • A dark-skinned woman with a cane stepped out of the elevator.
  • I must tell you that I have crossed twenty-five thousand versts by sea and I have seen foreign cities and all types of naked and dark-skinned people.
  • Isis whispered, nodding her head at a dark-skinned woman wearing a weave pulled back into one long ponytail, sitting at a table in the corner by herself. Show Stoppah
  • Provided that sun creams can be used for protection, the problem is only - though disturbingly - a cosmetic one, seriously so for dark-skinned people; small patches of depigmentation can also occur in the iris.
  • Zealand were a dark-skinned race called Maoris, a people lithe and handsome of body, though generally plain of features: open, frank and happy in youth, grave and often melancholy in their older years. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890
  • But he was dark-skinned, with a lot of black curly hair, lean, probably under thirty, clean-shaven, my height - that's five ten. THE QUEST FOR K
  • Dark-skinned people rarely develop skin cancer.
  • “Them some bad bitches,” a heavyset dark-skinned sistah wearing frizzy-looking cornrows said, jumping from her seat, dropping the Detroit newspaper. Show Stoppah
  • Some were as dark-skinned and petite as Evie; others were almost fair-skinned, with light brown hair and blue eyes. How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
  • The man was described as dark-skinned, middle-aged and unshaven with thinning hair, the news release said. The Seattle Times
  • Social worker Jane Addams, who led the movement to assimilate immigrants through settlement houses and who may have observed more immigrants at the time than anyone, reported that Italians in Chicago “held no particular animosity toward Negroes, for those in the neighborhood were mostly from South Italy and accustomed to the dark-skinned races.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • On the other side of the blanket, Edna Collins was going at it with a dark-skinned gandy dancer while two more waited outside, their hands stuffed in their canvas coat pockets, their slouch hats pulled low over their ears as protection against the wind. Rain Gods
  • Many have pointed out how the film's Afghani warlords are essentially stock Hollywood "darkies," fitting the evil dark-skinned mold perhaps too perfectly. Iron Man
  • It really didn't matter what you looked like - you could be blonde, blue-eyed or dark-skinned, dark-haired.
  • She was talking to the dark-skinned woman of the first queue. THE QUEST FOR K
  • The subway became a symbol of anarchic ruin, ruled over by criminally undisciplined dark-skinned youths.
  • Shrugging nonchalantly, Lucia sat down in the only open seat left at the table once her dark-skinned friend had reseated herself.
  • Dark-skinned, probably North African, he is wearing a dun-coloured greatcoat and a richly embroidered cap.
  • His fellow clubmen had heard him proclaim that miscegenation was the only hope of the white race, and his intimates knew, in a general way, of his attraction to dark-skinned women. The Five of Hearts
  • The only difference now is that instead of white bwanas there are dark-skinned leeches from our own villages.
  • Dark-skinned people rarely develop skin cancer.
  • A dark-skinned man in a sharkskin suit came out of a room on the second landing to meet them. TANK OF SERPENTS
  • When I was in Kerala I photographed a scene of dark-skinned Indians in line in front of a movie billboard depicting all light-skinned actors.
  • I was fourteen or fifteen, already into my diet and exercise phase, tall, muscular, and dark-skinned.
  • This past week, Limbaugh insisted that the Obama White House would use the catastrophe in Haiti to "burnish" the president's standing and credibility "with the black community, in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community, in this country. Bush Pushes Back Against Limbaugh's Obama-Haiti Remark
  • And I finished sipping my tea of delicious and most expensive aroma, and our slant-eyed, dark-skinned servitors carried the pretty gear away, and I read, continuing De Casseres: CHAPTER XXVI
  • In practice, the Committee targeted dark-skinned indigents and showed remarkably little interest in their origin, occupation, or prospects.
  • He was a dark-skinned brother with pearly white teeth, deep dimples and brushed-wavy hair. Show Stoppah
  • One of these, dark-skinned but with speckles no darker than light amber, armed only with a heavy dagger, came over and clapped von Schlichten on the shoulder, grinning opalescently. Uller Uprising
  • These were the dark-skinned folk with nappy hair.
  • For their part, the dark-skinned highlanders were amazed to confront men so pale that they seemed like spirits of the dead.
  • There stood a dark-skinned adolescent with close-cropped hair, whose gender I could detect only because of her ruffly dress.
  • On a serious note, Acosta adds, "Most difficult to take in was that princely roles were only danced by the blue-eyed, blond males and not dark-skinned ones - even in Cuba."
  • At the southern and western end of that line there live the most dolichocephalic, prognathous, curly-haired, dark-skinned of men — the true Negroes. Essays
  • One experiment in the artificial setting of a lab might not be very persuasive on the question of whether racism is eradicable, especially when pitted against real-world evidence of how African-American home buyers are discriminated against by financial institutions, for instance, and dark-skinned criminal defendants are treated more harshly than whites by jurors. How Your Brain Looks at Race
  • The dark-skinned natives were the cool ones amidst the flurry; and the boatmen were the coolest. Gold Seekers of '49
  • Borlotti Bean Salad Serves 6 Borlotti beans look like dark-skinned pinto beans.
  • Bevel wore a feathered porkpie hat and an uneven beard -- both of which made him look like a member of a lost, dark-skinned Amish tribe. Shawn Amos: Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood (Part 2)
  • Dark-skinned people in Brazil are more likely to be poor than light skinned-people and whites have average monthly incomes almost two and a half times greater than nonwhites.
  • Do you remember those charity infomercials with smiling white adults holding the hands of pathetically malnourished dark-skinned children?
  • In the red corner sat a butch, dark-skinned, muscleman baring his teeth.
  • This article looks at the roots of colourism and how it has impacted the interaction of dark-skinned women with light-skinned women.
  • The victims of this war are the same dark-skinned people whose deaths we ignore in order to sacralize our own, far less numerous ones. A Holy Day in the Empire
  • She went over to stand by the gorgeous dark-skinned woman, Uhura, and her own crewwoman Aidoann, while the captain, with occasional snickerings, read the document the lieutenant had brought him. Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
  • One of the relatives is a dark-skinned Chicano-looking male named Jesus with a goatee, dark sunglasses, a ponytail and a guayabera.
  • A caste system that novelist Alice Walker termed "colorism" has existed within the black community since slavery, stemming from the hierarchy established by slave masters for the light-skinned blacks who worked in the house and dark-skinned slaves who tended the fields. MultiCultClassics
  • He was a wonderful dark-skinned white man with jet-black hair who was often mistaken for a light-skinned black man.
  • As the story goes, nationally televised images of well-dressed children marching into jail, and of protesters being blasted with hoses and attacked by German shepherds, at a time when the United States was engaged in a competition with Communism for the hearts and minds of dark-skinned people in the Third World, made segregation a contradiction that had to be eliminated. A Renegade History of the United States
  • This article looks at the roots of colourism and how it has impacted the interaction of dark-skinned women with light-skinned women.
  • Their mom was a dark-skinned black woman and their dad a fair-skinned Dominican. True You
  • The protagonist Jagannatha's main concern is the Holeyaru, the submissive, spectral, dark-skinned lowest caste of Bharathipura. Hinduism Cast Against Modernity
  • Looking at the era in which it was staged, is there anything wrong with showing an obese, dark-skinned, self-concious child that because of the images that were consistently driven into the black culture as being "beautiful" greatly influenced how black girls viewed themselves? This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Up in the Air, Precious, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, and More | /Film
  • It really didn't matter what you looked like - you could be blonde, blue-eyed or dark-skinned, dark-haired.
  • Thus shut in, its hatchways looked like the entrance to deep vaults or mines; especially as her men were wheeling out of her hold some kind of ore, which might have been gold ore, so scrupulous were they in evening the bushel measures, in which they transferred it to the quay; and so particular was the captain, a dark-skinned whiskerando, in a Maltese cap and tassel, in standing over the sailors, with his pencil and memorandum-book in hand. Redburn. His First Voyage
  • Looking at Moroni he saw a dark-skinned, fleshy face, pitted with the craters of acne. FINAL RESORT
  • He dapped fists with the dark-skinned Jamaican youth. Dreams from Obama
  • a dark-skinned beauty
  • She went over to stand by the gorgeous dark-skinned woman, Uhura, and her own crewwoman Aidoann, while the Captain, with occasional snickerings, read the document the Lieutenant had brought him. My Enemy My Ally
  • Before him stood, or crouched, a diminutive, dark-skinned individual, clad in a scarlet fez and an off-white nightgown. THE LONELY SEA
  • As a dark-skinned zombie who has had the benefit of spending time in coroner autopsy rooms looking at a wide range of actual dead bodies, I have a sense of what brown dead bodies look like. First weds. early, b/c tomorrow will be crazy busy.
  • The curly haired, dark-skinned child who stared up at him with “hero-worship” adoration was oblivious to the fact that his white shirt was pulled halfway out of the waist of his pants or that his clip-on bow-tie was askew. Who Said It Would Be Easy
  • Muscled, dark-skinned men and nimble-fingered women churn the nearby factories, paper mills, shops and food markets.
  • It is not surprising that with this attitude towards dark-skinned people, many North Africans do not consider themselves blacks and look down on habitants of Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Dark-haired and dark-skinned, a pale blue dress and ivory sweater.
  • It is an autobiographical satire whose neurotic, dark-skinned protagonist, Emma Lou Morgan, internalizes biases against dark-complexioned people after a midwestern upbringing by colorstruck relatives mimicking racist societal values.
  • There was a probable purpose in his writing: to propagandize for the gentle philosophy of the gymnosophists, an obscure ascetic Hindu sect, and to proclaim the humanity, culture and martial skill of the dark-skinned Ethiopians.
  • Did people of African origin, and other dark-skinned people, face such discrimination?
  • Every man must be his own security, my dark-skinned friend, till he can find a bailsman. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
  • The man is described as dark-skinned and clean shaven with short hair. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories

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