Skin Deep How Race and Complexion Matter in the Color-Blind Era

Name: Skin Deep How Race and Complexion Matter in the Color-Blind Era
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ISBN: 9781929011261

ISBN-10: 1929011261

ISBN-13: 9781929011261

Edition: 2004

Authors: Cedric Herring, Verna M. Keith, Hayward Derrick Horton, Hayward Derrick Horton

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"Shattering the myth of the color-blind society, the essays in Skin Deep examine skin tone stratification in America, which affects relations not only among different races and ethnic groups but also among members of individual ethnicities. Written by some of the nation's leading thinkers on race and colorism, these essays ask whether skin tone differentiation is imposed upon communities of color from the outside or is an internally-driven process aided and abetted by community members themselves. They also question whether the stratification process is the same for African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans.Skin Deep addresses such issues as the relationship between skin tone and…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Chicago Distribution Center
Publication date: 7/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Verna M. Keith is Chair of the Department of Sociology at Arizona State University and a co-editor of In and Out of Our Right Minds: African American Women's Mental Health.

Hayward Derrick Horton is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany (SUNY) and coauthor of Rebuilding Black Communities: Black Community Development in Contemporary America. He is the former Chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on Race and Ethnic Minorities.




Skin Deep: Race and Complexion in the "Color-Blind" Era




Light, Bright, and Almost White: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Light Skin




Copper Brown and Blue Black: Colorism and Self Evaluation




For Richer, For Poorer, Whether Dark or Light: Skin Tone, Marital Status, and Spouse's Earnings




"Mama, Are You Brown?": Multiracial Families and the Color Line




Beyond Black?: The Reflexivity of Appearances in Racial Identification Among Black/White Biracials




Skin Tone, Class, and Racial Attitudes Among African Americans




Toward a Critical Demography of Neo-Mulattoes: Structural Change and Diversity Within the Black Population




Demystifying Color-Blind Ideology: Denying Race, Ignoring Racial Inequalities




Race South of the Equator: Reexamining the Intersection of Color and Class in Brazil




From Biracial to Tri-Racial: The Emergence of a New Racial Stratification System in the United States



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