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Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone (Paperback, New edition)
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Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone (Paperback, New edition)
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There is an African American saying, 'The darker the berry, the
sweeter the juice, ' which means the darker the skin color, the
sweeter the person. Despite this adage, the reality is that lighter
skin colour, or the lighter the berry, the more valued the person.
Such hierarchies of skin colour date back to the days of slavery
and colonization when people with dark skin were assumed to be
savages. This legacy of colour is still very much with us. In
startling interviews with African American and Mexican American
women, Margaret Hunter shows us that there is a persistent
advantage for lighter skinned women of colour in terms of
educational attainment, income, residential segregation, spousal
status, and mental health. In short, lighter skin tone is social
capital that can be transformed into economic and educational
capital. In this, the first scholarly account of this well-known,
yet rarely discussed, phenomenon, Hunter provides a historical
understanding of skin colour as well as a contemporary look at
issues today, including the recent phenomenon of cosmetic surgery
to 'correct' features such as thick lips or wide noses
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