Shades of difference
Subtitle: why skin color matters
By: edited by Evelyn Nakano Glenn.
Contributors: Glenn, Evelyn Nakano.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780804759984; 9780804759991
Subjects: Human skin color -- Social aspects; Human skin color -- Economic aspects; Racism; Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : economies of color / Angela P. Harris; title: The social consequences of skin color in Brazil / Edward Telles; title: A colorstruck world : skin tone, achievement, and self-esteem among African American women / Verna M. Keith; title: The Latin Americanization of U.S. race relations : a new pigmentocracy / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and David Dietrich; title: Filipinos and the color complex : ideal Asian beauty / Joanne L. Rondilla; title: The color of an ideal Negro beauty queen : Miss Bronze 1961-1968 / Maxine Leeds Craig; title: Caucasian, coolie, black, or white? : color and race in the Indo-Caribbean diaspora / Aisha Khan; title: The dynamics of color : mestizaje, racism, and blackness in Veracruz, Mexico / Christina A. Sue; title: Skin tone and the persistence of biological race in egg donation for assisted reproduction / Charis Thompson; title: Fair enough? : color and the commodification of self in Indian matrimonials / Jyotsna Vaid; title: Consuming lightness : segmented markets and global capital in the skin-whitening trade / Evelyn Nakano Glenn; title: Skin lighteners in South Africa : transnational entanglements and technologies of the self / Lynn M. Thomas; title: Multilayered racism : courts' continued resistance to colorism claims / Taunya Lovell Banks; title: The case for legal recognition of colorism claims / Trina Jones; title: Latinos at work : when color discrimination involves more than color / Tanya Katerí Hernández.