Color Matters

Author : Kimberly Jade Norwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131781956X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Color Matters written by Kimberly Jade Norwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, as in many parts of the world, people are discriminated against based on the color of their skin. This type of skin tone bias, or colorism, is both related to and distinct from discrimination on the basis of race, with which it is often conflated. Preferential treatment of lighter skin tones over darker occurs within racial and ethnic groups as well as between them. While America has made progress in issues of race over the past decades, discrimination on the basis of color continues to be a constant and often unremarked part of life. In Color Matters, Kimberly Jade Norwood has collected the most up-to-date research on this insidious form of discrimination, including perspectives from the disciplines of history, law, sociology, and psychology. Anchored with historical chapters that show how the influence and legacy of slavery have shaped the treatment of skin color in American society, the contributors to this volume bring to light the ways in which colorism affects us all--influencing what we wear, who we see on television, and even which child we might pick to adopt. Sure to be an eye-opening collection for anyone curious about how race and color continue to affect society, Color Matters provides students of race in America with wide-ranging overview of a crucial topic.

Author : Sendpoints
Publisher : Sendpoints
ISBN 13 : 9789881294395
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Color Matters written by Sendpoints and published by Sendpoints. This book was released on 2014 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a collection of resources on color, presented by J.L. Morton. Offers access to a bulletin board and discusses different aspects of color in regards to culture, physiology, technology, optics, design, history, architecture, and education.

Author : Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804770999
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shades of Difference written by Evelyn Nakano Glenn and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Carl E. James
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487526318
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colour Matters written by Carl E. James and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over a period of more than two decades, Colour Matters is a collection of essays that shows how race informs the aspirational pursuits of Black youth in the Greater Toronto Area.

Author : Anuranjita Kumar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9389000491
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colour Matters? written by Anuranjita Kumar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all different in some ways, yet, very similar because we all respond to emotions of love, affection, joy and sorrow. These feelings are common to all-across ethnicities, geographies and boundaries. Yet there are certain factors which contribute to our identity, which visibly make us look dissimilar, and impacts how we connect and belong. The colour of the skin, through its subtle and attached symbolism and beliefs, its presence or the lack of it, tells a story of human dynamics that is constructive and/or destructive, depending on the lens used. It has the visual power to influence, pronounce judgements, divide, confer privileges and even influence the right to love, hate, embrace, protect or kill merely based on colour-the colour of the skin. Colour Matters? explores these cross-cultural dynamics and highlights the difficulties of being a minority in different geographies. The book is replete with stories of individuals across continents and multi-ethnic, multi-professional backgrounds narrating their personal experiences and, hence, learnings from their own encounters. In a world where the race and racism debate continues to occupy a crucial space in public discourse it is worthwhile to embark on an exploratory journey to deconstruct such ideas and discover what really lies beneath.

Author : Tony Sandset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367478841
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Color that Matters written by Tony Sandset and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in Scandinavia are formed along both cultural and embodied lines, arguing that while the official discourses in the region refer to a "post-racial" or "color blind" era, color still matters in the lives of people of mixed ethnic descent. Drawing on research from people of mixed ethnic backgrounds, the author offers insights into how color matters and is made to matter and into the ways in which terms such as "ethnic" and "ethnicity" remain very much indebted to their older, racialized grammar. Color that Matters moves beyond the conventional Anglo-American focus of scholarship in this field, showing that while similarities exist between the racial and ethnic discourses of the US and UK and those found in the Nordic region, Scandinavia, and Norway in particular, manifests important differences, in part owing to a tendency to view itself as exceptional or outside the colonial heritage of race and imperialism. Presenting both a contextualization of racial discourses since World War II based on documentary analysis and new interview material with people of mixed ethnic backgrounds, the book acts as a corrective to the blind spot within Scandinavian research on ethnic minorities, offering a new reading of race for the Nordic region that engages with the idea that color has been emptied of legitimate cultural content.

Author : Emily Allen Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793628300
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diversity Matters written by Emily Allen Williams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social justice rhetoric is prevalent in contemporary America, but are we as a nation ready to do the work to effect real change? Emily Allen Williams has gathered a group of essays that interrogate matters of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access. In doing so, the essays contribute to what Williams call “tilling the ground,” i.e. a process by which the nation is prepared for the changes that must follow the rhetoric through the work of diversity and inclusion in a variety of social arenas. With subject matters ranging from the Black Lives Matter movement and children’s literature to the contemporary workplace and university, the collected essays present and analyze progress that is already being made and outline ways for our society to continue to move this process forward until the rhetoric of social justice manifests in actual conditions of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access throughout the nation.

Author : Juan Flores
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470766026
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Latina/o Studies written by Juan Flores and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Latina/o Studies is a collection of 40 original essays written by leading scholars in the field, dedicated to exploring the question of what 'Latino/a' is. Brings together in one volume a diverse range of original essays by established and emerging scholars in the field of Latina/o Studies Offers a timely reference to the issues, topics, and approaches to the study of US Latinos - now the largest minority population in the United States Explores the depth of creative scholarship in this field, including theories of latinisimo, immigration, political and economic perspectives, education, race/class/gender and sexuality, language, and religion Considers areas of broader concern, including history, identity, public representations, cultural expression and racialization (including African and Native American heritage).

Author : James Fox
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141976667
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World According to Colour written by James Fox and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been given over the eras and around the globe. Showing how artists, scientists, writers, philosophers, explorers and inventors have both shaped and been shaped by these wonderfully myriad meanings, James Fox reveals how, through colour, we can better understand their cultures, as well as our own. Each colour offers a fresh perspective on a different epoch, and together they form a vivid, exhilarating history of the world. 'We have projected our hopes, anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years,' Fox writes. 'The history of colour, therefore, is also a history of humanity.'

Author : Joe Hayes
Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN 13 : 1933693819
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lovesick Skunk written by Joe Hayes and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy who likes to wear his favorite clothes constantly, no matter what, leaves his smelly, black-and-white sneakers outside his tent during a campout and witnesses their effect on a passing skunk.