Archive for November, 2009

Naked Dream Revised

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

I dreamt last night that I arrived for a meeting and realized I hadn’t washed my hair before I left the house.  OK, I will head out in a disheveled manner fairly often in real life.  But in my dream it felt like being naked in grade school.  That’s got to be a “mulatto moment.”

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Interesting NPR Story on Perception of Skin Color

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

You can check it out here.   The gist is that people who voted for Obama tended to think of him as lighter, those who didn’t tended to think of him as darker.  This correlated to political ideology to a good degree, but the correlation was even tighter along the lines of the reported perception of [...]