The Skin You’re In
Posted by Staff on 9/06/11
The Skin You’re In |
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Students explore the idea of race |
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Photo courtesy of the Race Project |
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| Why do we often judge people we don’t know by the way they look? Do genetic traits like skin color, hair texture or the shape of someone’s eyes tell us whether that person is good or smart, or talented at music or sports? Anthropologists, biologists and scholars tell us what race is and isn’t, and three students explain how people judge them based upon how they look. (READ THIS STORY) | ||
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| Being an Arab and a Muslim doesn’t make me a terrorist | Dark-brown skin doesn’t mean I’m not Guyanese | There’s more to Katie’s life than school work and books |
| Read Don’t judge a book | Read Brown-skinned girl | Read The Asian myth |
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