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Title Is lighter better? : skin-tone discrimination among Asian Americans / Joanne L. Rondilla and Paul Spickard ; contributing researchers and writers, Lilynda Agvateesiri [and nine others].

Publication Info.	Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2007]
	2007

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-142) and index.
Contents	Colorism in Asian America -- The darker and lighter sister : telling our stories -- The survey -- Making a better me? Pure. White. Flawless -- The unkindest cut : cosmetic surgery.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Colorism -- United States.
	Asian Americans -- Race identity.
	Asian Americans -- Attitudes.
	Race discrimination -- United States.
	Racism -- United States.
	Human skin color -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
	Human skin color -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Asian Americans -- Social conditions.
	United States -- Race relations.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Spickard, Paul R., 1950- author.
	Agvateesiri, Lilynda, contributor.
Other Form:	Print version: Rondilla, Joanne L. Is lighter better? : skin-tone discrimination among Asian Americans. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2007] x, 148 pages ; 24 cm 9780742554931 (DLC)10928895
ISBN	9780742554931 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0742554937 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780742554948 (paper : alk. paper)
	0742554945 (paper : alk. paper)
	9781461638100 (electronic bk.)