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Shades of Difference - Why Skin Color Matters (Paperback): Evelyn Nakano Glenn Shades of Difference - Why Skin Color Matters (Paperback)
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Shades of Difference" addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of "colorism"--the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a broad range of societies and historical periods, this insightful collection looks at how skin color affects people's opportunities in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and North America.
Is skin color bias distinct from racial bias? How does skin color preference relate to gender, given the association of lightness with desirability and beauty in women? The authors of this volume explore these and other questions as they take a closer look at the role Western-dominated culture and media have played in disseminating the ideal of light skin globally. With its comparative, international focus, this enlightening book will provide innovative insights and expand the dialogue around race and gender in the social sciences, ethnic studies, African American studies, and gender and women's studies.

Mothering - Ideology, Experience, and Agency (Paperback): Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace Chang, Linda Rennie Forcey Mothering - Ideology, Experience, and Agency (Paperback)
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace Chang, Linda Rennie Forcey
R1,756 Discovery Miles 17 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The volume presents a variety of unique perspectives on mothering as a socially constructed relationship focused on caring and nurturing. Crossing a range of ethnicities and classes, it addresses different ideas and practices of mothering, the need to expand our definitions beyond biological determinism and 'family values', and the conditions under which, and resources with which, mothering occurs. Since mothering is central to the reproduction of social relations - the main vehicle by which people form their first identities and learn their place in society - it constitutes a contested terrain. This work brings together important voices on the most examined and 'essential' aspect of female being.

Unequal Freedom - How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor (Paperback, New edition): Evelyn Nakano Glenn Unequal Freedom - How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor (Paperback, New edition)
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
R794 R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Save R74 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights.

After a lucid overview of the concepts of the free worker and the independent citizen at the national level, Glenn vividly details how race and gender issues framed the struggle over labor and citizenship rights at the local level between blacks and whites in the South, Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest, and Asians and haoles (the white planter class) in Hawaii. She illuminates the complex interplay of local and national forces in American society and provides a dynamic view of how labor and citizenship were defined, enforced, and contested in a formative era for white-nonwhite relations in America.

Forced to Care - Coercion and Caregiving in America (Paperback): Evelyn Nakano Glenn Forced to Care - Coercion and Caregiving in America (Paperback)
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
R990 Discovery Miles 9 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The United States faces a growing crisis in care. The number of people needing care is growing while the ranks of traditional caregivers have shrunk. The status of care workers is a critical concern. Evelyn Nakano Glenn offers an innovative interpretation of care labor in the United States by tracing the roots of inequity along two interconnected strands: unpaid caring within the family; and slavery, indenture, and other forms of coerced labor. By bringing both into the same analytic framework, she provides a convincing explanation of the devaluation of care work and the exclusion of both unpaid and paid care workers from critical rights such as minimum wage, retirement benefits, and workers' compensation. Glenn reveals how assumptions about gender, family, home, civilization, and citizenship have shaped the development of care labor and been incorporated into law and social policies. She exposes the underlying systems of control that have resulted in women-especially immigrants and women of color-performing a disproportionate share of caring labor. Finally, she examines strategies for improving the situation of unpaid family caregivers and paid home healthcare workers. This important and timely book illuminates the source of contradictions between American beliefs about the value and importance of caring in a good society and the exploitation and devalued status of those who actually do the caring.

Shades of Difference - Why Skin Color Matters (Hardcover): Evelyn Nakano Glenn Shades of Difference - Why Skin Color Matters (Hardcover)
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
R2,715 R2,437 Discovery Miles 24 370 Save R278 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Shades of Difference" addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of "colorism"--the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a broad range of societies and historical periods, this insightful collection looks at how skin color affects people's opportunities in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and North America.
Is skin color bias distinct from racial bias? How does skin color preference relate to gender, given the association of lightness with desirability and beauty in women? The authors of this volume explore these and other questions as they take a closer look at the role Western-dominated culture and media have played in disseminating the ideal of light skin globally. With its comparative, international focus, this enlightening book will provide innovative insights and expand the dialogue around race and gender in the social sciences, ethnic studies, African American studies, and gender and women's studies.

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