Light Privilege? Skin Tone Stratification in Health among African Americans

• Published in: Sociology of race and ethnicity (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) Vol. 5; no. 3; pp. 370 - 387
• Main Author: Hargrove, Taylor W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2019; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Adult development; African Americans; Disadvantaged; Discrimination; Gender differences; Health disparities; Health problems; Inequality; Minority groups; Panel data; Physiology; Skin color; Socioeconomic factors; Stress; Women; Young adults; within-group heterogeneity; African Americans; health inequality; colorism; stratification; Within-group Heterogeneity; Health Inequality; Stratification; Colorism

Skin tone is a status characteristic used in society to evaluate and rank the social position of minorities. Although skin color represents a particularly salient dimension of race, its consequences for health remains unclear. The author uses four waves of panel data from the Coronary Artery Risk De...