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What Color is Your Skin? Choosing Color Names

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What Color is Your Skin? Choosing Color Names

Have you ever tried to describe the color of your skin? For fiction writers, especially those writing multicultural books and those for children, coming up with color names  to describe skin is an ongoing challenge. Coming up with color names for skin often crops up with children’s lessons on racism and in literature classes, too. A teacher, […]

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