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My Skin: Our Cultural Connection

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Language can define a person in so many ways. Some ways language can express a person are who you are, how you speak, and what you look like. A young girl with black coiled hair grew up in a house with a family that loved getting together with other family members and having a game day/night. “And here is all we’ll need: a card deck, quartets of sun people of the sort found in Black college dormitories, some vintage Music, indiscriminate spirits, fried chicken, some paper, A writing utensil, and a bottomless Saturday.” “Four players Bid several books. Each team adds the bids of the two partners, and the total is the number of books That team must try to win.” (`By Terrance Hayes) Knowing how to play a game like spades was a part of her culture. Image is one of the significant characteristics of the African American culture as it represents what we stand for, how we speak, and our appearance. African American woman DJ with headphones | African American women, Illustration print, Afric...