"Brown Skin" is the second single released by American soul and R&B singer-songwriter India.Arie from her debut studio album Acoustic Soul on September 18, 2001. The single failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, but it became her highest charting single in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 29.

Brown or Brown people is a racial and ethnic classification. Like black people and white people, it is a metaphor for race based on human skin colour. In racialist anthropology, the colour brown and the term brown people was used to describe a series of hypothesized racial groups that included various populations from North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, and South America. In Brazil, brown people is a cognate term for pardo.