The Color Complex (Revised): The Politics of Skin Color in a New Millennium

A provocative exploration of how Western standards of beauty are influencing cultures across the globe and impacting personal, professional, romantic and familial relationships. Processes like skin lightening in India, hair smoothing in Black America, eyelid reconstruction in China, and plastic surgery worldwide continue to rise in popularity for men and women facing discrimination from both within and outside of their own increasingly fluid ethnic groups. Now including a wealth of new information since the first edition of The Color Complex over two decades ago, the authors, through a historical and sociological lens, have measured the impact of recent pop culture events effecting race relations to determine whether colorism has gotten better or worse over time.

• Color Matters (New Directions in American History)
• When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
• Women, Race, & Class
• Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters
• The Global Beauty Industry (Framing 21st Century Social Issues)
• The History of White People
• Black Power : The Politics of Liberation
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
• Color Stories: Black Women and Colorism in the 21st Century (Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture)
• Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex