As one of the first scholarly books to focus on colorism in education, this volume considers how connections between race and color may influence school-based experiences. Chapter authors question how variations in skin tone, as well as related features such as hair texture and eye color, complicate perspectives on race and they demonstrate how colorism is a form of discrimination that affects educational stakeholders, especially students, families, and professionals, across P-16 institutions. This volume provides an outline of colorism’s contemporary relevance within the United States and shares considerations for international dimensions that are linked to immigration, refugee populations, and Canada. By situating colorism in an educational context, this book offers suggestions for how educators may engage and confront this form of discrimination.
Author(s): Carla R. Monroe
Series: Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: Pseudo-scholarship, for the race obsessed. Easier than science, right?.
Pages: 214
Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
PART ONE The Complexity of Race and Color in Education......Page 16
1 Resisting Everyday Colorism in Schools: Strategies for Identifying and Interrupting the Problem that Won’t Go Away......Page 18
2 Thoughts on Bullying and Colorism in Black Women’s Remembered Experiences......Page 37
3 From Colored People to Students of Color: The Complexity of Colorism in Families and Educational Institutions......Page 52
4 Marked for Labor: Latina Bodies and Transnational Capital—A Marxist Feminist Critical Pedagogy......Page 76
5 Mixed Race College Students and Colorism: Considerations for Post-Secondary Institutions......Page 100
6 Multiracial College Students and Colorism: Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave......Page 112
PART TWO International Perspectives on Race and Color in Education......Page 128
7 Global to Local: What Influences Racial and Ethnic Identity Construction Among Latino/a Adolescents?......Page 130
8 De-hue-manizing Them: Color and Acculturation Among Second-Generation South Asians......Page 145
9 Following the Lamp Beside the Golden Door: Immigrant Families in Literature and Life......Page 160
10 Colorism and the Educational Experiences of Immigrants and Refugees: Global and Local Considerations for Educators......Page 177
11 Race, Color, and Family: Exploring Possibilities of School Engagement......Page 192
Concluding Thoughts......Page 204
Contributors......Page 208
Index......Page 214
