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Color Struck

How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era

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Editors:
  1. Lori Latrice Martin

    1. Louisiana State University, USA

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  2. Hayward Derrick Horton

    1. University at Albany, USA
      State University of New York, USA

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  3. Cedric Herring

    1. University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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  4. Verna M. Keith

    1. Texas A&M University, USA

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  5. Melvin Thomas

    1. North Carolina State University, USA

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  • Color Struck focuses specifically on the ways skin tone has historically played a significant role in determining the life chances of African Americans and other people of color and the role skin tone plays in contemporary times.
  • Color Struck is unique in that the book simultaneously addresses issues such as the relationship between skin tone and wealth inequality, anti-black sentiment and whiteness, Twitter culture, marriage outcomes and attitudes, gender, racial identity, civic engagement and politics at Predominately White Institutions from an interdisciplinary perspective.
  • Color Struck satisfies readers’ quest for greater insight into the complexities and controversies surrounding race, multiracialism, gender, identity, politics, civic engagement, religion, and color in an era that purports that such things no longer matter.

Part of the book series: Teaching Race and Ethnicity (RACE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Race, Skin Tone, and Wealth Inequality in America

    • Cedric Herring, Anthony Hynes
    Pages 1-17

  3. Mentions and Melanin

    • Sarah L. Webb, Petra A. Robinson
    Pages 19-35

  4. Beyond Black and White But Still in Color

    • Antoinette M. Landor
    Pages 37-53

  5. Connections or Color?

    • Vanessa Gonlin
    Pages 55-76

  6. Black Body Politics in College

    • Latasha N. Eley
    Pages 77-122

  7. Biracial Butterflies

    • Paul Easterling
    Pages 123-142

  8. Confronting Colorism

    • Jahaan Chandler
    Pages 143-156

  9. How Skin Tone Shapes Civic Engagement among Black Americans

    • Robert L. Reece, Aisha A. Upton
    Pages 157-177

  10. The Complexity of Color and the Religion of Whiteness

    • Stephen C. Finley, Lori Latrice Martin
    Pages 179-196

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 197-198
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About this book

Skin color and skin tone has historically played a significant role in determining the life chances of African Americans and other people of color. It has also been important to our understanding of race and the processes of racialization. But what does the relationship between skin tone and stratification outcomes mean? Is skin tone correlated with stratification outcomes because people with darker complexions experience more discrimination than those of the same race with lighter complexions? Is skin tone differentiation a process that operates external to communities of color and is then imposed on people of color? Or, is skin tone discrimination an internally driven process that is actively aided and abetted by members of communities of color themselves? Color Struck provides answers to these questions. In addition, it addresses issues such as the relationship between skin tone and wealth inequality, anti-black sentiment and whiteness, Twitter culture, marriage outcomes and attitudes, gender, racial identity, civic engagement and politics at predominately White Institutions. Color Struck can be used as required reading for courses on race, ethnicity, religious studies, history, political science, education, mass communications, African and African American Studies, social work, and sociology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Louisiana State University, USA

    Lori Latrice Martin

  • University at Albany, USA

    Hayward Derrick Horton

  • State University of New York, USA

    Hayward Derrick Horton

  • University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

    Cedric Herring

  • Texas A&M University, USA

    Verna M. Keith

  • North Carolina State University, USA

    Melvin Thomas

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Color Struck

  • Book Subtitle: How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era

  • Editors: Lori Latrice Martin, Hayward Derrick Horton, Cedric Herring, Verna M. Keith, Melvin Thomas

  • Series Title: Teaching Race and Ethnicity

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-110-0

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6351-110-0Published: 25 August 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: CC, 18

  • Topics: Education, general

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