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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818886303321

Autore

Hunter Margaret L. <1972, >

Titolo

Race, gender, and the politics of skin tone / / Margaret L. Hunter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-136-07490-2

0-203-62034-8

1-283-88689-8

1-136-07482-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/896073

Soggetti

African Americans - Race identity

Mexican Americans - Race identity

African American women - Social conditions

Mexican American women - Social conditions

Interviews - United States

Human skin color - United States - Psychological aspects

Human skin color - Social aspects - United States

Racism - United States

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-144) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Colorstruck -- The color of slavery and conquest -- Learning, earning, and marrying more -- Black and brown bodies under the knife -- The beauty queue: advantages of light skin -- The blacker the berry: ethnic legitimacy and skin tone -- Color and the changing racial landscape.

Sommario/riassunto

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 well-known, yet rarely discussed phenomenon.