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Nascent Drama

In her 1942 Glossary of Harlem Slang, Zora Neale Hurston placed "high yaller" at the beginning of the entry for her African American colorscale, which ran:

“ high yaller, yaller, high brown, vaseline brown, seal brown, low brown, dark brown ”
 
Food
 
Chocolate is often associated with the color brown.
 
Brownies are a favorite dessert.
 
Boston brown bread is a popular bread made with molasses that is often sold in cans.
 
Games
 
In the billiard game of Snooker the 4-point snooker ball is brown.
 
Movies
 
Four shades of brown[6] is the title of a Swedish film from 2004
 
Music
 
Little Brown Jug is a drinking song written in 1869 by Joseph Winner.
 
Brown Sugar is one of the most popular songs by the Rolling Stones (Album: Sticky Fingers).
 
The song "Brown Eyed Girl" is by the artist Van Morrison (Album: Blowin' Your Mind!).
 
The song "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" is by the artist Primus (Album: Tales from the Punchbowl).
 
Nature
 
Many soils are brown.
 
Many kinds of wood and the bark of many trees are brown.
 
Feces are usually brown.
 
A large number of mammals and predatory birds have a brown coloration.
 
This sometimes changes seasonally, and sometimes remains the same year-round.
 
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