 The
photos that capture the process of making skin tone in American descendants
of Africa.
The Afro Angel Pen
Pal Welcomes you. She also questions the veracity of what you write,
while you write it.
Biz-Archive/Canes/Skin-Blend/Blend-Skin-001
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is an early experiment with making skin blends. For this project I'll be
making Color
Cards of the different skin tones found in the
Afro-American community. The pictures were sorted from darkest to
lightest skin tones. I have 1970 Blacksploitation pictures because it's part
of the homework.
2001 early effort of
exploring ethnic
diversity. Three faces and back in the day I called them "three races",
but I've come to understand that there's no genetic marker for "race".
There's just variations on a theme.
Fossils
in the blood
Look into the faces of this San family, some of the oldest
DNA in the world. They live in South Africa, speak that "click" language you
don't hear anywhere else. You can see Asian in there, you can see
Aborigine, skin tones from light to dark. From that genetic tree trunk the
branches went around the world and we have some of the variation we see
below. I'm sorting the skin tones from dark to light, roughly.
You don't often see Condie Rice with Cleopatra Jones, or Shaft with Toni
Morrison grouped together.
Click on the thumbnails to see the enlarged jpg.
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