How Skin Tone Shapes Civic Engagement among Black Americans

Citation

Reece, Robert L. & Upton, Aisha A. (2017). How Skin Tone Shapes Civic Engagement among Black Americans. In Martin, Lori Latrice Horton Hayward Derrick Herring Cedric Keith Verna M. Thomas Melvin (Ed.), Color Struck: How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era (pp. 157-177). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

Abstract

“Color” describes the variations in skin tone and other phenotypic characteristics—such as hair texture, nose shape, and lip shape—among people of color. A wide variety of research demonstrates that color shapes the life experiences of people of color in almost every country in the world (Hunter, 2005).

URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-110-0_8

Reference Type

Book Chapter

Book Title

Color Struck: How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era

Series Title

Teaching Race and Ethnicity

Author(s)

Reece, Robert L.
Upton, Aisha A.

Editor(s)

Martin, Lori Latrice Horton Hayward Derrick Herring Cedric Keith Verna M. Thomas Melvin

Series Author(s)

Leavy, Patricia

Year Published

2017

Pages

157-177

Publisher

SensePublishers

City of Publication

Rotterdam

ISSN/ISBN

978-94-6351-110-0

DOI

10.1007/978-94-6351-110-0_8

Reference ID

7123