Color Matters Skin Tone Bias and the Myth of a Post-Racial America

Name: Color Matters Skin Tone Bias and the Myth of a Post-Racial America
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ISBN: 9780415517751

ISBN-10: 0415517753

ISBN-13: 9780415517751

Edition: 2014

Authors: Kimberly Jade Norwood

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In the United States, as in many parts of the world, people are discriminated against based on the color of their skin. This type of skin tone bias, or colorism, is both related to and distinct from discrimination on the basis of race, with which it is often conflated. Preferential treatment of lighter skin tones over darker occurs within racial and ethnic groups as well as between them. While America has made progress in issues of race over the past decades, discrimination on the basis of color continues to be a constant and often unremarked part of life. In Color Matters , Kimberly Jade Norwood has collected the most up-to-date research on this insidious form of discrimination, including…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction




The Ubiquitousness of Colorism: Then and Now




The Origins of Colorism in Early American Law




The Rise and Fall of the One-Drop Rule: How the Importance of Color Came to Eclipse Race




A Darker Shade of Pale Revisited: Disaggregated Blackness and Colorism in the "Postracial" Obama Era




Interracial Intimacy in the Context of Colorism: How Skin Color Matters




Fragmented Identity: Psychological Insecurity and Colorism among African Americans




Colorism and Blackthink: A Modern Augmentation of Double Consciousness




The Implications of Skin Color vis-ï¿½-vis Discrimination: Revisiting Affirmative Action




A New Way Forward: The Development and Preliminary Validation of Two Colorism Scales