160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone tackles the hidden yet painful issue of colorism in the African American and Mexican American communities. Beginning with a historical discussion of slavery and colonization in the Americas, the book quickly moves forward to a contemporary analysis of how skin tone continues to plague people of color today. This is the first book to explore this... Read more
1. Colorstruck2. The Color of Slavery and Conquest3. Learning, Earning, and Marrying More4. Black and Brown Bodies Under the Knife5. The Beauty Queue: Advantages of Light Skin6. The Blacker the Berry: Ethnic Legitimacy and Skin Tone7. Color and the Changing Racial Landscape
Biography
Margaret Hunter is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
