The word ‘negro’ in the United States designed a colour but also was an pejorative expression to qualify a part of the population and let them know the low social place they deserved Backdoors only for ‘negros’, walk on one side of the street, not be allowed to sit at sun on a public bench, sit down on the back side in the bus or to address respectfully to white people… were common daily things until the middle of last century Songs included on the cd refer to the different black people skin tones, the darkest ones on tunes like Black, Brown And White, Mr Black Man, Black Angel Blues or Black And Evil Blues The rest of the songs refer to black people with more brown coloured skin, in songs like Chocolate To The Bone, brown Skin Girls, Tesi’n Brown Skin, Brown Mama Blues, Brown Skin Woman or My Brown Frame Baby among others