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

Other author Glenn, Evelyn Nakano.
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Human skin color--Social aspects.
Human skin color--Economic aspects.
Racism.
Race relations.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-290) and index.
LCCN 2008043086
ISBN9780804759984 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0804759987 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780804759991 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0804759995 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN 197 .S524 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold