Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780415946087 (0415946085)
Publish date: June 23rd 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Pages no: 150
Edition language: English
3.5 stars, I think. Interesting book to read. It included a lot of things I already knew about colourism. Even so, it was quite a depressing read, depressing because people still buy into the eurocentric view of beauty and not only spend a lot of money to change their features (surgeries, etc) but a...
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