X-Nico

unusual facts about skin color



Byron Kim

Each panel recreates the skin color of an individual who sat for Kim while he painted their portrait.

Goobacks

The aliens are described by CNN as "a hairless, uniform mix of all races" with the same skin color, while their language is a guttural mixture of all world languages.


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Black people and Mormonism

Another possible reason for racial restriction has been called by Colin Kidd "Mormon karma", where skin color is perceived as evidence of righteousness (or its lack thereof) in a pre-mortal existence.

Carole Boston Weatherford

In response to the controversy, Jynx's in-game sprites were given a purple skin color in the American versions of Pokémon Gold and Silver, released in late 2000.

Eagle Force

However, others were painted very differently as it seems that only a tan skin color was used for the heads, therefore the Sergeant Brown figure is a caucasian and Redwing has a tan head with brown arms.

Edgar Cayce

Olav Hammer wrote that many of Cayce's readings discussed race and skin color and that the explanation for this is that Cayce was not a racist but was influenced by the occult ideas of Madame Blavatsky.

Grass jelly

It is also mixed with cold soy milk and served as a refreshing drink/dessert, a drink known as Michael Jackson in South-East Asia (a reference to Michael Jackson's changing skin color and/or the song "Black or White").

SLC24A5

In a search for scientists who had human DNA linked to skin color measurements, he found that his Pennsylvania State University colleague, anthropologist Mark D. Shriver, had such DNA.

Society of the Spectacle LLC

Their "Color Me" series of designs included paint-by-numbers drawings of popular super models including Kate Moss, Gemma Ward and Natalia Vodianova, intended to reflect how race is a socially learned concept which is best reflected by how children who are not yet affected by racial socialization respond to the issues of skin color.

Tannic acid

Skin color in Crocodilia (crocodiles and alligators) is very dependent on water quality.

Virgil Tibbs

Virgil Tibbs is an African American police detective who is detained on suspicion of murder solely on the basis of his skin color while passing through the small town of Wells, somewhere in the Carolinas (Sparta, Mississippi in the film).

When She Woke

When She Woke is a reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, set in a future dystopian and theocratic America where rather than imprisonment and rehabilitation, punishment for a crime consists of being "chromed" - having the skin color genetically altered based on the crime they committed - and released into the general population.