Which skin colour are you? The pantone chart that confronts racism
Brazil is meant to be a postracial society, where skin colour doesn’t count. But Pierre David’s human swatches reveal the truth about racism there – and beyondIn 1933, in a book called The Masters and the Slaves, the Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Freyre wrote: “Every Brazilian, even the light-skinned, fair-haired one, carries about him on his soul, when not on soul and body alike, the shadow, or at least the birthmark, of the aborigine or the negro.”Freyre belie
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