{"id":13059,"date":"2011-04-02T18:04:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13059"},"modified":"2014-11-30T00:45:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T00:45:23","slug":"shades-of-difference-why-skin-color-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13059","title":{"rendered":"Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/book.cgi?id=16183\" target=\"_blank\">Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford University Press<br \/>\n<\/a>2009<br \/>\n312 pages<br \/>\n11 tables, 15 figures, 16 illustrations<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 9780804759984<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 9780804759991<br \/>\nE-book ISBN: 9780804770996<\/p>\n<p>Edited by:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu\/faculty\/profile.php?person=6\" target=\"_blank\">Evelyn Nakano Glenn<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Asian American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/book.cgi?id=16183\" target=\"_blank\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/img\/covers\/med_large\/pid_16183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Shades of Difference<\/em> addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism\u2014the 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&#8217;s opportunities in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and North America.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s studies.<\/p>\n<p>Contents<\/p>\n<ul>Contributors<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/pages.cgi?isbn=0804759995&amp;item=Introduction_pages&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Introduction: Economies of Color<\/a>\u2014<strong>Angela P. Harris <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Part I The Significance of Skin Color: Transnational Divergences and Convergences<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>1. The Social Consequences of Skin Color in Brazil\u2014<strong>Edward Telles <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>2. A Colorstruck World: Skin Tone, Achievement, and Self-Esteem Among African American Women\u2014<strong>Verna M. Keith <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>3. The Latin Americanization of U.S. Race Relations: A New Pigmentocracy\u2014<strong>Eduardo Bonilla-Silva<\/strong> and <strong>David R. Dietrich <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Part II Meanings of Skin Color: Race, Gender, Ethnic Class, and National Identity<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>4. Filipinos and the Color Complex: Ideal Asian Beauty\u2014<strong>Joanne L. Rondilla <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>5. The Color of an Ideal Negro Beauty Queen: Miss Bronze 1961-1968\u2014<strong>Maxine Leeds Craig <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>6. Caucasian, Coolie, Black, or White? Color and Race in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora\u2014<strong>Aisha Khan <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>7. Ihe Dynamics of Color: Mestizaje, Racism, and Blackness in Veracruz, Mexico\u2014<strong>Christina A. Sue <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Part III Consuming Lightness: Modernity, Transnationalism, and Commodification<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>8. Skin Tone and the Persistence of Biological Race in Egg Donation for Assisted Reproduction\u2014<strong>Charis Thompson <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>9. Fair Enough? Color and the Commodification of Self in Indian Matrimonials\u2014<strong>Jyotsna Vaid <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>10. Consuming Lightness: Segmented Markets and Global Capital in the Skin-Whitening Trade\u2014<strong>Evelyn Nakano Glenn <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>11. Skin Lighteners in South Africa: Transnational Entanglements and Technologies of the Self\u2014<strong>Lynn M. Thomas <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Part IV Countering Colorism: Legal Approaches<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>12. Multilayered Racism: Courts&#8217; Continued Resistance to Colorism Claims\u2014<strong>Taunya Lovell Banks <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>13. The Case for Legal Recognition of Colorism Claims\u2014<strong>Trina Jones <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>14. Latinos at Work: When Color Discrimination Involves More Than Color\u2014<strong>Tanya Kater\u00ed Hernandez <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledgments<\/li>\n<li>Notes<\/li>\n<li>Index<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the Introduction <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/pages.cgi?isbn=0804759995&amp;item=Introduction_pages&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters Stanford University Press 2009 312 pages 11 tables, 15 figures, 16 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804759984 Paper ISBN: 9780804759991 E-book ISBN: 9780804770996 Edited by: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism\u2014the preference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,18,11,83,21,125,1467,8,26,394,20],"tags":[298,2888,5865,5874,702,6169,3625,5868,5867,319,1893,5864,5863,5862,5869,5870,5875,5876,5877,5873,5872,5871,339,2113,5161,2112,5879,5878,2018,5226,5866,1974],"class_list":["post-13059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthologies","category-books","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-identitydevelopment","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-aisha-khan","tag-angela-harris","tag-angela-p-harris","tag-charis-thompson","tag-christina-a-sue","tag-christina-alicia-sue","tag-christina-sue","tag-david-dietrich","tag-david-r-dietrich","tag-eduardo-bonilla-silva","tag-edward-telles","tag-evelyn-glenn","tag-evelyn-n-glenn","tag-evelyn-nakano-glenn","tag-joanne-l-rondilla","tag-joanne-rondilla","tag-jyotsna-vaid","tag-lynn-m-thomas","tag-lynn-thomas","tag-maxine-craig","tag-maxine-l-craig","tag-maxine-leeds-craig","tag-stanford-university-press","tag-tanya-hernandez","tag-tanya-k-hernandez","tag-tanya-kateri-hernandez","tag-taunya-banks","tag-taunya-l-banks","tag-taunya-lovell-banks","tag-trina-jones","tag-verna-keith","tag-verna-m-keith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}