{"id":45912,"date":"2016-10-08T01:14:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T01:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45912"},"modified":"2017-03-08T19:37:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T19:37:43","slug":"same-family-different-colors-confronting-colorism-in-americas-diverse-families%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45912","title":{"rendered":"Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America&#8217;s Diverse Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beacon.org\/Same-Family-Different-Colors-P1225.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America&#8217;s Diverse Families<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beacon.org\" target=\"_blank\">Beacon Press<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-04<br \/>\n216 pages<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 978-080707678-1<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/loritharps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lori L. Tharps<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Journalism<br \/>\n<em>Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beacon.org\/Same-Family-Different-Colors-P1225.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beacon.org\/Assets\/ProductImages\/978-080707678-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, <em>Same Family, Different Colors<\/em> explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\">Colorism<\/a> and color bias\u2014the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the lighter color of their skin\u2014is a pervasive but rarely openly discussed phenomenon, one that is centuries old and continues today. In <em>Same Family, Different Colors<\/em>, journalist Lori Tharps, the mother of three mixed-race children with three distinct skin colors, uses her own family as a starting point to explore how skin-color difference is dealt with in African American, Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race families and communities. Along with intimate and revealing stories and anecdotes from dozens of diverse people from across the United States, Tharps adds a historical overview and a contemporary cultural critique. <em>Same Family, Different Colors<\/em> is a solution-seeking journey to the heart of identity politics, so this more subtle \u201ccousin to racism,\u201d in the author\u2019s words, will be acknowledged, understood, and debated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,414,125,8,17,20],"tags":[3688,240,17955,17956],"class_list":["post-45912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-beacon-press","tag-colorism","tag-lori-l-tharps","tag-lori-tharps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45912","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=45912"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52245,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45912\/revisions\/52245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}