{"id":32201,"date":"2013-07-10T03:42:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T03:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32201"},"modified":"2017-05-28T21:54:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:54:22","slug":"race-gender-and-the-politics-of-skin-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32201","title":{"rendered":"Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415946087\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Routledge<\/a><br \/>\n2005-06-23<br \/>\n160 pages<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 978-0-415-94607-0<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-415-94608-7<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mills.edu\/academics\/faculty\/soc\/mhunter\/mhunter.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Margaret L. Hunter<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Mills College, Oakland, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415946087\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.tandf.co.uk\/common\/jackets\/amazon\/978041594\/9780415946087.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Acknowledgments<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 1: Colorstruck<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 2: The Color of Slavery and Conquest<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 3: Learning, Earning, and Marrying More<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 4: Black and Brown Bodies Under the Knife<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 5: The Beauty Queue: Advantages of Light Skin<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 6: The Blacker the Berry: Ethnic Legitimacy and Skin Tone<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 7: Color and the Changing Racial Landscape<\/li>\n<li><em>Appendix<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Notes<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Bibliography<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Index<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone&#8221; tackles the hidden yet painful issue of colorism in the African American and Mexican American communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14646,8,17,394,20],"tags":[14029,15140,420],"class_list":["post-32201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-margaret-hunter","tag-margaret-l-hunter","tag-routledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201","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=32201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54052,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201\/revisions\/54052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}