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

Contributor(s): Glenn, Evelyn Nakano
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.Description: ix, 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780804759984; 9780804759991 (pbk)DDC classification: 305.8
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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