{"product_id":"9780807076798","title":"Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America's Diverse Families","description":"\u003cb\u003eWeaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, \u003ci\u003eSame Family, Different Colors\u003c\/i\u003e explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColorism and color bias—the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin—is a pervasive and damaging but rarely openly discussed phenomenon. In this unprecedented book, Lori L. Tharps explores the issue in African American, Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race families and communities by weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis. The result is a compelling portrait of the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTharps, the mother of three mixed-race children with three distinct skin colors, uses her own family as a starting point to investigate how skin-color difference is dealt with. Her journey takes her across the country and into the lives of dozens of diverse individuals, all of whom have grappled with skin-color politics and speak candidly about experiences that sometimes scarred them. From a Latina woman who was told she couldn’t be in her best friend’s wedding photos because her dark skin would “spoil” the pictures, to a light-skinned African American man who spent his entire childhood “trying to be Black,” Tharps illuminates the complex and multifaceted ways that colorism affects our self-esteem and shapes our lives and relationships. Along with intimate and revealing stories, Tharps adds a historical overview and a contemporary cultural critique to contextualize how various communities and individuals navigate skin-color politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGroundbreaking and urgent, \u003ci\u003eSame Family, Different Colors\u003c\/i\u003e is a solution-seeking journey to the heart of identity politics, so that this more subtle “cousin to racism,” in the author’s words, will be exposed and confronted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Beacon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069055385840,"sku":"9780807076798","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807076798_p0.jpg?v=1763730164","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807076798","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}