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Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone by Margaret L. Hunter is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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In Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone, Margaret L. Hunter describes how colorism leads to discrimination against dark-skinned African American and Mexican American women, resulting in their lower levels of education, lower incomes, and lower status husbands. Analyzing survey data and drawing on extensive quotes from women of color, Hunter describes the personal, and often private, pain of colorism in women's lives. This book demonstrates how light-skinned women gain advantages in terms
Who reads Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Margaret L. Hunter
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780203620342
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Sociology
- Rating
- 3.75 / 5 (20 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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