Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters - Paperback

by Evelyn Nakano Glenn (Editor)

Shades of Difference examines the significance of skin color in different societies around the world and its effects on relations between and within racial groups.

Author Biography

Evelyn Nakano Glenn is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Gender and Women's Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. She currently holds the position of president-elect of the American Sociological Association and will assume the presidency of the association in 2009.