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Shades of difference : why skin color matters / edited by Evelyn Nakano Glenn.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 299 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804770996
  • 0804770999
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shades of difference.DDC classification:
  • 305.8 22
LOC classification:
  • GN197 .S524 2009eb
Other classification:
  • MS 3300
  • MS 3450
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Contents:
Introduction : economies of color / Angela P. Harris -- The social consequences of skin color in Brazil / Edward Telles -- A colorstruck world : skin tone, achievement, and self-esteem among African American women / Verna M. Keith -- The Latin Americanization of U.S. race relations : a new pigmentocracy / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and David Dietrich -- Filipinos and the color complex : ideal Asian beauty / Joanne L. Rondilla -- The color of an ideal Negro beauty queen : Miss Bronze 1961-1968 / Maxine Leeds Craig -- Caucasian, coolie, black, or white? : color and race in the Indo-Caribbean diaspora / Aisha Khan -- The dynamics of color : mestizaje, racism, and blackness in Veracruz, Mexico / Christina A. Sue -- Skin tone and the persistence of biological race in egg donation for assisted reproduction / Charis Thompson -- Fair enough? : color and the commodification of self in Indian matrimonials / Jyotsna Vaid -- Consuming lightness : segmented markets and global capital in the skin-whitening trade / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Skin lighteners in South Africa : transnational entanglements and technologies of the self / Lynn M. Thomas -- Multilayered racism : courts' continued resistance to colorism claims / Taunya Lovell Banks -- The case for legal recognition of colorism claims / Trina Jones -- Latinos at work : when color discrimination involves more than color / Tanya Katerí Hernández.
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Summary: Shades of Difference examines the significance of skin color in different societies around the world and its effects on relations between and within racial groups.
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Introduction : economies of color / Angela P. Harris -- The social consequences of skin color in Brazil / Edward Telles -- A colorstruck world : skin tone, achievement, and self-esteem among African American women / Verna M. Keith -- The Latin Americanization of U.S. race relations : a new pigmentocracy / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and David Dietrich -- Filipinos and the color complex : ideal Asian beauty / Joanne L. Rondilla -- The color of an ideal Negro beauty queen : Miss Bronze 1961-1968 / Maxine Leeds Craig -- Caucasian, coolie, black, or white? : color and race in the Indo-Caribbean diaspora / Aisha Khan -- The dynamics of color : mestizaje, racism, and blackness in Veracruz, Mexico / Christina A. Sue -- Skin tone and the persistence of biological race in egg donation for assisted reproduction / Charis Thompson -- Fair enough? : color and the commodification of self in Indian matrimonials / Jyotsna Vaid -- Consuming lightness : segmented markets and global capital in the skin-whitening trade / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Skin lighteners in South Africa : transnational entanglements and technologies of the self / Lynn M. Thomas -- Multilayered racism : courts' continued resistance to colorism claims / Taunya Lovell Banks -- The case for legal recognition of colorism claims / Trina Jones -- Latinos at work : when color discrimination involves more than color / Tanya Katerí Hernández.

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