"I still don't understand who "brown" people are. Is it literally just about what color one's skin is?"
It's really just another way of saying "people of colour." "Black" people are, of course, brown. But because we're collectively known as "black" for some reason, and because it would be REALLY ridiculous to refer to a Latino or Indian p…
"I still don't understand who "brown" people are. Is it literally just about what color one's skin is?"
It's really just another way of saying "people of colour." "Black" people are, of course, brown. But because we're collectively known as "black" for some reason, and because it would be REALLY ridiculous to refer to a Latino or Indian person as "black," we get this term with this strange redundancy.
So yeah, it's as coherent as "people of colour" is. Sometimes useful, sometimes not.
"I still don't understand who "brown" people are. Is it literally just about what color one's skin is?"
It's really just another way of saying "people of colour." "Black" people are, of course, brown. But because we're collectively known as "black" for some reason, and because it would be REALLY ridiculous to refer to a Latino or Indian person as "black," we get this term with this strange redundancy.
So yeah, it's as coherent as "people of colour" is. Sometimes useful, sometimes not.