Color matters [electronic resource] : skin tone bias and the myth of a post-racial America / edited by Kimberly Jade Norwood.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The ubiquitousness of colorism : then and now / Kimberly Jade Norwood and Violeta Solonova Foreman -- 2. The origins of colorism in early American law / Paul Finkelman -- 3. The rise and fall of the one-drop rule : how the importance of color came to eclipse race / Kevin D. Brown -- 4. A darker shade of pale revisited : disaggregated blackness and colorism in the "post-racial" Obama era / Taunya Lovell Banks -- 5. Colorism and interracial intimacy : how skin color matters / Kellina M. Craig-Henderson -- 6. Fragmented identity : psychological insecurity and colorism among African Americans / Vetta L. Sanders Thompson -- 7. Colorism and Blackthink : a modern augmentation of double consciousness / Kimberly Jade Norwood -- 8. The implications of skin color vis--vis discrimination : revisiting affirmative action / Ronald E. Hall and Adrienne Johnson -- 9. A new way forward : the development and preliminary validation of two colorism scales / Richard D. Harvey, Kira Hudson Banks, and Rachel E. Tennial.