Color Struck : How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era / / edited by Lori Latrice Martin, Hayward Derrick Horton, Cedric Herring, Verna M. Keith, Melvin Thomas.

• Superior document: Teaching Race and Ethnicity
• HerausgeberIn: Martin, Lori Latrice.; Horton, Hayward Derrick.; Herring, Cedric.; Keith, Verna M.; Thomas, Melvin.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
• Language: English
• Series: Teaching Race and Ethnicity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Lori Latrice Martin , Hayward Derrick Horton , Cedric Herring , Verna M. Keith and Melvin Thomas -- Race, Skin Tone, and Wealth Inequality in America / Cedric Herring and Anthony Hynes -- Mentions and Melanin / Sarah L. Webb and Petra A. Robinson -- Beyond Black and White but Still in Color / Antoinette M. Landor -- Connections or Color? / Vanessa Gonlin -- Black Body Politics in College / Latasha N. Eley -- Biracial Butterflies / Paul Easterling -- Confronting Colorism / Jahaan Chandler -- How Skin Tone Shapes Civic Engagement among Black Americans / Robert L. Reece and Aisha A. Upton -- The Complexity of Color and the Religion of Whiteness / Stephen C. Finley and Lori Latrice Martin -- About the Contributors / Lori Latrice Martin , Hayward Derrick Horton , Cedric Herring , Verna M. Keith and Melvin Thomas.