Bleaching out the color line? The skin color continuum and the tripartite model of race

Race and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-31

  Herring, Cedric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Color blind; Colorism; Complexion; Honorary whites; Mulatto; One drop rule; Racism; Skin color; Skin privilege; Skin tone

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942691809     PISSN: 10909524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.racsoc.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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