Shades of Difference

Evelyn Nakano Glenn is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Gender and Women's Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. She currently holds the position of president-elect of the American Sociological Association and will assume the presidency of the association in 2009.

"[T]his is an excellent collection with new findings, important ideas, and moving quotations and illustrations. I recommend it highly."—Jennifer L. Hochschild, Journal of American Ethnic History "If you think that there is nothing left to write or read about skin color and human societies, Shades of Difference will change your mind and shake you up."—Nina G. Jablonski, Journal of Anthropological Research "Shades of Difference is a distinguished collection that broadens the new area of colorism scholarship to include the national and international class dynamics of why skin color matters. Evelyn Nakano Glenn has brought together diverse authors to capture a range of identities shaped by the national and international politics and economics of skin color. A must read for all concerned with critical race studies." —Mary Romero, Arizona State University "Skin color and race are often used synonymously in the US. From historical accounts of black beauty pageants to social meanings of color in Brazil to global marketing of skin lightening products, Nakano Glenn presents an array of research from different countries of the world to analyze the meanings and hierarchies of skin-color. The result is a very thought-provoking book that will reshape how scholars think about skin color and race in the contemporary world." —Bandana Purkayastha, University of Connecticut

• Part I The Significance of Skin Color: Transnational Divergences and Convergences 7 1 The Social Consequences of Skin Color in Brazil 9 Edward Telles 2 A Colorstruck World: Skin Tone, Achievement, and Self-Esteem Among African American Women 25 Verna M. Keith 3 The Latin Americanization of U.S. Race Relations: A New Pigmentocracy 40 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and David R. Dietrich Part II Meanings of Skin Color: Race, Gender, Ethnic Class, and National Identity 61 4 Filipinos and the Color Complex: Ideal Asian Beauty 63 Joanne L. Rondilla 5 The Color of an Ideal Negro Beauty Queen: Miss Bronze 1961-1968 81 Maxine Leeds Craig 6 Caucasian, Coolie, Black, or White? Color and Race in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora 95 Aisha Khan 7 The Dynamics of Color: Mestizaje, Racism, and Blackness in Veracruz, Mexico 114 Christina A. Sue Part III Consuming Lightness: Modernity, Transnationalism, and Commodification 129 8 Skin Tone and the Persistence of Biological Race in Egg Donation for Assisted Reproduction 131 Charis Thompson 9 Fair Enough? Color and the Commodification of Self in Indian Matrimonials 148 Jyotsna Vaid to Consuming Lightness: Segmented Markets and Global Capital in the Skin-Whitening Trade 166 Evelyn Nakano Glenn 11 Skin Lighteners in South Africa: Transnational Entanglements and Technologies of the Self 188 Lynn M. Thomas Part IV Countering Colorism: Legal Approaches 211 12 Multilayered Racism: Courts' Continued Resistance to Colorism Claims 213 Taunya Lovell Banks 13 The Case for Legal Recognition of Colorism Claims 223 Trina Jones 14 Latinos at Work: When Color Discrimination Involves More Than Color 236 Tanya Kateri Hernandez