Shades of Difference Why Skin Color Matters 1st Edition by Evelyn Nakano Glenn ISBN 978-0804759991 0804759995

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ISBN 10:  0804759995

ISBN 13: 978-0804759991

Author: Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism―the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a broad range of societies and historical periods, this insightful collection looks at how skin color affects people’s opportunities in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and North America.

Is skin color bias distinct from racial bias? How does skin color preference relate to gender, given the association of lightness with desirability and beauty in women? The authors of this volume explore these and other questions as they take a closer look at the role Western-dominated culture and media have played in disseminating the ideal of light skin globally. With its comparative, international focus, this enlightening book will provide innovative insights and expand the dialogue around race and gender in the social sciences, ethnic studies, African American studies, and gender and women’s studies.

Table of contents: 

Part I The Significance of Skin Color: Transnational Divergences and Convergences

1 The Social Consequences of Skin Color in Brazil Edward Telles

2 A Colorstruck World: Skin Tone, Achievement, and Self-Esteem Among African American Women Verna M. Keith

3 The Latin Americanization of U.S. Race Relations: A New Pigmentocracy Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and David R. Dietrich

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

4 Filipinos and the Color Complex: Ideal Asian Beauty Joanne L. Rondilla

5 The Color of an Ideal Negro Beauty Queen:

Miss Bronze 1961-1968

Maxine Leeds Craig

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

7. The Dynamics of Color: Mestizaje, Racism, and Blackness in Veracruz, Mexico
Christina A. Sue

Part III – Consuming Lightness: Modernity, Transnationalism, and Commodification

8. Skin Tone and the Persistence of Biological Race in Egg Donation for Assisted Reproduction
Charis Thompson

9. Fair Enough? Color and the Commodification of Self in Indian Matrimonials
Jyotsna Vaid

10. Consuming Lightness: Segmented Markets and Global Capital in the Skin-Whitening Trade
Evelyn Nakano Glenn

11. Skin Lighteners in South Africa: Transnational Entanglements and Technologies of the Self
Lynn M. Thomas

Part IV – Countering Colorism: Legal Approaches

12. Multilayered Racism: Courts’ Continued Resistance to Colorism Claims
You know Lovell Banks

13. The Case for Legal Recognition of Colorism Claims
Trina Jones

14. Latinos at Work: When Color Discrimination Involves More Than Color
Tanya Katerí Hernández

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