Includes bibliographical references and index.

Skin deep : race and complexion in the "color-blind" era / Cedric Herring -- Light, bright, and almost white : the advantages and disadvantages of light skin / Margaret Hunter -- Copper brown and blue black : colorism and self evaluation / Maxine S. Thompson and Verna M. Keith -- For richer, for poorer, whether dark or light : skin tone, marital status, and spouse's earnings / Korie Edwards, Katrina Carter-Tellison, and Cedric Herring -- "Mama, are you brown?" : multiracial families and the color line / Heather M. Dalmage -- Beyond black? : the reflexivity of appearances in racial identification among black/white biracials / Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma -- Skin tone, class, and racial attitudes among African Americans / Phillip J. Bowman, Ray Muhammad, and Mosi Ifatunji -- Toward a critical demography of neo-Mulattoes : structural change and diversity within the black population / Hayward Derrick Horton and Lori Latrice Sykes -- Demystifying color-blind ideology : denying race, ignoring racial inequalities / Kimberly L. Ebert -- Race south of the equator : reexamining the intersection of color and class in Brazil / Vânia Penha-Lopes -- From biracial to tri-racial : the emergence of a new racial stratification system in the United States / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.