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

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Other Authors: Glenn, Evelyn Nakano
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
Human skin color > Social aspects.
Human skin color > Economic aspects.
Racism.
Race relations.
Physical Description:ix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.