The ‘Brown Skin Gal’ in fact and fiction

Around the figure of the ‘brown skin gal’ — the Caribbean woman of mixed race — float many associations, some flattering, some detrimental. Several of them are implicit in the innocent words of a popular song of the 1950s: Brown skin gal, stay home and mind baby … I’m going away in a sailing boat And if I don’t come back Stay home and mind baby.