Color matters : skin tone bias and the myth of a post-racial America /
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 ligh...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Series: | New directions in American history.
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Table of Contents:
- The ubiquitousness of colorism / Kimberly Jade Norwood and Violeta Solonova Foreman
- The origins of colorism in early American law / Paul Finkelman
- The rise and fall of the One-Drop rule : how the importance of color came to eclipse race / Kevin D. Brown
- A darker shade of pale revisited : disaggregated blackness and colorism in the "post-racial" Obama era / Taunya Lovell Banks
- Colorism and interracial intimacy : how skin color matters / Kellina M. Craig-Henderson
- Fragmented identity : psychological insecurity and colorism among African Americans / Vetta L. Sanders Thompson
- Colorism and Blackthink : a modern augmentation of double consciousness / Kimberly Jade Norwood
- The implications of skin color vis-à-vis discrimination : revisiting affirmative action / Ronald E. Hall and Adrienne Johnson
- A new way forward : the development and preliminary validation of two colorism scales / Richard D. Harvey, Kira Hudson Banks, and Rachel E. Tennial.