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  • White Colorism

    Results from ordinal logistic regression analyses indicate that African American and Latino respondents with the lightest skin are several times more likely to be seen by whites as intelligent compared with those with the darkest skin. The article concludes that a full accounting of white hegemony requires an acknowledgment of both white racism and white…

  • Beyond Black and White: A Reader on Contemporary Race Relations

    Beyond Black and White: A Reader on Contemporary Race Relations SAGE Publishing 2017 488 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781506306940 Edited by: Zulema Valdez, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Beyond Black and White is a new anthology of readings that reflects the complexity of racial dynamics in the contemporary United States, where the fastest-growing…

  • White Colorism

    White Colorism Social Currents Volume 2, Number 1 (March 2015) DOI: 10.1177/2329496514558628 pages 13-21 Lance Hannon, Professor Department of Sociology & Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Perhaps reflecting a desire to emphasize the enduring power of rigidly constructed racial categories, sociology has tended to downplay the importance of within-category variation in skin tone. Similarly, in…

  • Can Incarceration Really Strip People of Racial Privilege?

    Can Incarceration Really Strip People of Racial Privilege? Sociological Science 2016-03-18 Lance Hannon, Professor of Sociology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Robert DeFina, Professor of Sociology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania We replicate and reexamine Saperstein and Penner’s prominent 2010 study which asks whether incarceration changes the probability that an individual will be seen as black or…

  • When whites are guilty of colorism

    When whites are guilty of colorism The Washington Post 2014-11-08 Lance Hannon, Professor Department of Sociology and Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Robert DeFina, Professor Department of Sociology and Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” However, in our public…