| Description |
xi, 203 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Colorism and color bias, the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the lighter color of their skin, is a pervasive but rarely openly discussed phenomenon, one that is centuries old and continues today. In Same Family, Different Colors, journalist Lori Tharps, the mother of three mixed-race children with three distinct skin colors, uses her own family as a starting point to explore how skin-color difference is dealt with in African American, Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race families and communities. Along with intimate and revealing stories and anecdotes from dozens of diverse people from across the United States, Tharps adds a historical overview and a contemporary cultural critique. Same Family, Different Colors is a solution-seeking journey to the heart of identity politics, so this more subtle cousin to racism, in the authors words, will be acknowledged, understood, and debated. |
| Contents |
The darker the berry: African Americans and color -- Mejorando la raza: Latinos and color -- Fair enough: Asian Americans and color -- Beige is the new black: mixed-race Americans and color. |
| Subject(S) |
Colorism.
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Racially mixed families.
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| ISBN |
9780807076781 (hardback) |
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0807076783 (hardback) |
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