“If You're Light You're Alright”

By M. Hunter. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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The Relationship Between Skin Tone and School Suspension for African Americans (2013, background): “If you’re light, you’re alright’’ (Hunter 2002; Inniss 2010).”
The Hidden Prejudice in Selection: A Research Investigation on Skin Color Bias (2009, background): “Thus, it is common for lighter skinned Black women to have higher salaries than Black women with darker skin who have very similar résumés (Hunter, 2002).”
Hair It Is: Examining the Experiences of Black Women with Natural Hair (2014, background): “Women of color feel great negative effects of skin color and [19-22] hair texture prejudice [1-4,6,13].”
Body Projects of Young Women of Color in Physics: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Science (2005, background): “Light-skinned individuals or individuals of mixed racial or ethnic heritage are often attracted to this option (Hunter 2002; Lawrence-Lightfoot 1995).”
Testing a Culture-Specific Extension of Objectification Theory Regarding African American Women's Body Image (2008, methodology): “Given the historical and contemporary role of skin tone in the perception of African Americans and other people of color (Hunter, 2002; Maddox & Gray, 2002; Wade & Bielitz, 2005), subjective variables related to skin tone need to be addressed both theoretically and empirically in the body-image lite”
Colorism in the Classroom: How Skin Tone Stratifies African American and Latina/o Students (2016, background): “The growing body of social science research on skin color stratification demonstrates that light-skinned Latina/os and African Americans complete more years of schooling than their darker-skinned counterparts (Allen, Telles & Hunter, 2000; Hunter, 2002; Keith & Herring, 1991; Murguia & Telles, 1996;”