Race, gender, and the politics of skin tone / Margaret L. Hunter.

By:

Hunter, Margaret L, 1972- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2005Description: 1 online resource (ix, 150 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781136074820
1136074821
9780203620342
0203620348
1283886898
9781283886895
1136074902
9781136074905

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Race, gender, and the politics of skin tone.DDC classification:

305.48/896073 22

LOC classification:

E185.625 .H865 2005eb

Other classification:

MS 3530

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Contents:

Colorstruck -- The color of slavery and conquest -- Learning, earning, and marrying more -- Black and brown bodies under the knife -- The beauty queue: advantages of light skin -- The blacker the berry: ethnic legitimacy and skin tone -- Color and the changing racial landscape.

Summary: In Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone, Margaret L. Hunter describes how colorism leads to discrimination against dark-skinned African American and Mexican American women, resulting in their lower levels of education, lower incomes, and lower status husbands. Analyzing survey data and drawing on extensive quotes from women of color, Hunter describes the personal, and often private, pain of colorism in women's lives. This book demonstrates how light-skinned women gain advantages in terms of beauty status and romantic relationships while dark-skinned women are typically viewed as more authentic members of their own racial/ethnic groups. Book jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-144) and index.

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In Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone, Margaret L. Hunter describes how colorism leads to discrimination against dark-skinned African American and Mexican American women, resulting in their lower levels of education, lower incomes, and lower status husbands. Analyzing survey data and drawing on extensive quotes from women of color, Hunter describes the personal, and often private, pain of colorism in women's lives. This book demonstrates how light-skinned women gain advantages in terms of beauty status and romantic relationships while dark-skinned women are typically viewed as more authentic members of their own racial/ethnic groups. Book jacket.

English.

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