Shades of Difference Why Skin Color Matters

Name: Shades of Difference Why Skin Color Matters
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ISBN: 9780804759991

ISBN-10: 0804759995

ISBN-13: 9780804759991

Edition: 2009

Authors: Evelyn Nakano Glenn

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Evelyn Nakano Glenn is Professor of Womenï¿½e(tm)s Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.



Contributors


Introduction: Economies of Color




The Significance of Skin Color: Transnational Divergences and Convergences



The Social Consequences of Skin Color in Brazil




A Colorstruck World: Skin Tone, Achievement, and Self-Esteem Among African American Women




The Latin Americanization of U.S. Race Relations: A New Pigmentocracy




Meanings of Skin Color: Race, Gender, Ethnic Class, and National Identity



Filipinos and the Color Complex: Ideal Asian Beauty




The Color of an Ideal Negro Beauty Queen: Miss Bronze 1961-1968




Caucasian, Coolie, Black, or White? Color and Race in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora




The Dynamics of Color: Mestizaje, Racism, and Blackness in Veracruz, Mexico




Consuming Lightness: Modernity, Transnationalism, and Commodification



Skin Tone and the Persistence of Biological Race in Egg Donation for Assisted Reproduction




Fair Enough? Color and the Commodification of Self in Indian Matrimonials




Consuming Lightness: Segmented Markets and Global Capital in the Skin-Whitening Trade




Skin Lighteners in South Africa: Transnational Entanglements and Technologies of the Self




Countering Colorism: Legal Approaches



Multilayered Racism: Courts' Continued Resistance to Colorism Claims




The Case for Legal Recognition of Colorism Claims




Latinos at Work: When Color Discrimination Involves More Than Color



Acknowledgments


Notes


Index