Fwd: Re: people of color

[Sonja L. Lanehart]

I meant to send this to the list.    --Sonja


>Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:54:16 -0500
>To: bergdahl at ohio.edu
>From: "Sonja L. Lanehart" <lanehart at arches.uga.edu>
>Subject: Re: people of color
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>That's interesting given my discussion with my sons teacher and
>other parents who said that their children or children they know
>refer to all people as being grey. I'd never heard that before and
>seen anyone referred to as such, but I haven't been hanging around
>today's children very long (last 4 years).
>
>Another twist to this is that my son has taken to calling people
>multi-colored when referencing skin complexion. That was certainly
>new to me and I still haven't quite figured out how he came to that
>conclusion except to say that he has noticed that people's hands and
>feet (front-side/back-side) are not the same color.   --Sonja
>
>
>>E. M. Foster's term for Europeans in Passage to India, I believe it was,
>>was "pinko-grey"--I kinda like that!
>>
>>-- db
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