Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I The Significance of Skin Color
6. 1 The Social Consequences of Skin Color in Brazil 7
7. 2 A Colorstruck World 25
8. 3 The Latin Americanization of U.S. Race Relations 40
9. Part II Meanings of Skin Color
10. 4 Filipinos and the Color Complex 61
11. 5 The Color of an Ideal Negro Beauty Queen 81
12. 6 Caucasian, Coolie, Black, or White? 95
13. 7 The Dynamics of Color 114
14. Part III Consuming Lightness
15. 8 Skin Tone and the Persistence of Biological Race in Egg Donation for Assisted Reproduction 129
16. 9 Fair Enough? 148
17. 10 Consuming Lightness 166
18. 11 Skin Lighteners in South Africa 188
19. Part IV Countering Colorism
20. 12 Multilayered Racism 211
21. 13 The Case for Legal Recognition of Colorism Claims 223
22. 14 Latinos at Work 236
23. Acknowledgments 247
24. Notes 249
25. Index 291