An Empirical Analysis Of The Impact Of Skin Color On African-American Education, Income, And Occupation.GN57 2005-041523 0-7734-6120-5 An empirical analysis of the impact of skin color on African-American education, income, and occupation. Hall, Ronald E. (Black studies; v.28) Edwin Mellen Pr., [c]2005 266 p. $109.95 In order to provide quantitative data for a phenomenon he finds very obvious but that scholars and policy makers work very hard to deny, Hall (Michigan Michigan (mĭsh`ĭgən), upper midwestern state of the United States. It consists of two peninsulas thrusting into the Great Lakes and has borders with Ohio and Indiana (S), Wisconsin (W), and the Canadian province of Ontario (N,E). State U.) conducted a study of 200 African-American students at two historically Black colleges in the southeastern US using an instrument he developed called the Cutaneo Chroma Short for "chrominance." The attributes of a color, which include its hue (frequency) and saturation (amount of black). See hue and saturation. Correlate. To set the context, he discusses how skin color relates to education, occupation, income, and contemporary implications. Then he describes the study and analyzes its results, and discusses his findings in chapters Men Have Dark Skin and The Bleaching bleaching, process of whitening by chemicals or by exposure to sun and air, commonly applied to textiles, paper pulp, wheat flour, petroleum products, oils and fats, straw, hair, feathers, and wood. Syndrome. Discrimination based on skin color-as opposed to race--and other heritages of European colonialism colonialism Control by one power over a dependent area or people. The purposes of colonialism include economic exploitation of the colony's natural resources, creation of new markets for the colonizer, and extension of the colonizer's way of life beyond its national borders. cannot be alleviated al·le·vi·ate tr.v. al·le·vi·at·ed, al·le·vi·at·ing, al·le·vi·ates To make (pain, for example) more bearable: a drug that alleviates cold symptoms. See Synonyms at relieve. by government programs, he says, and the solution begins by acknowledging the problem. |
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