Sentence examples for a light skin from inspiring English sources

"Even in Jamaica, your own country, coming into youth cricket you need to be from an upscale high school or have a light skin.

The Unicode emoji characters for people and body parts are meant to be generic, yet following the precedents set by the original Japanese carrier images, they are often shown with a light skin tone instead of a more generic (inhuman) appearance, such as a yellow/orange color or a silhouette.

I am a light skin Mexican American cisgendered woman, that lends her privilege and platform to different Latinx experiences.

My oldest, who has a light skin tone and dirty blonde hair, was once called beautiful by a young, white filmmaker we met at the park.

But health risks are no match against the cosmetic phenomenon's rooting in colorism -- what Oprah describes as a "light skin dark skin prejudice, when people of color discriminate against each other with people within their own race".

"White" is typically and continually seen as the default race--even down to little things, like the color "nude" being a light skin tone--and it's seen as the opposite of brown.

The first man, who officers believe was involved in the stabbing, is described as a light skinned black man, aged about 20 years old, of stocky build, with short hair dark hair.

The bulk of Butler's defense of this ambivalence derives from her discussion of the life and death of Venus Xtravaganza, a light skinned Latina, and self-identified pre-operative transsexual woman.

A light skinned, blond child, Guillermo, would later study medicine, according to the Sanchez relations who met him socially.

Reid was in a similar situation before, when he apologized for describing President Barack Obama as a "light skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one" in 2008.

In skin, the absorption mean free path (~10-100mm) is ten to one hundred times longer than the transport (scattering) mean free path (~1mm), for a light skinned individual.