Shades of Brown: The Law of Skin Color
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2000
Abstract
Because antidiscrimination efforts have focused primarily on race, courts have largely ignored discrimination within racial classifications on the basis of skin color. In this Article, Professor Jones brings light to this area by examining the historical and contemporary significance of skin color in the United States. She argues that discrimination based on skin color, or colorism, is a present reality and predicts that this form of discrimination will assume increasing significance in the future as current understandings or race and racial classifications disintegrate. She maintains that the legal system must develop a firm understanding of colorism in order for the quest for equality of opportunity to succeed.
Citation
Trina Jones, Shades of Brown: The Law of Skin Color, 49 Duke Law Journal 1487-1557 (2000)
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