{"product_id":"skin-color-power-and-politics-in-america-paperback","title":"Skin Color, Power, and Politics in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMara Cecilia Ostfeld\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNicole Yadon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA person's skin color affects their life experiences including income, educational attainment, health outcomes, exposure to discrimination, interactions with the criminal justice system and one's sense of ethnoracial group belonging. But, do these disparate experiences affect the relationship between skin color and political views? In \u003ci\u003eSkin Color, Power, and Politics in America\u003c\/i\u003e, political scientists Mara Ostfeld and Nicole Yadon explore the relationship between skin color and political views in the U.S. among Latino, Black, and White Americans. They examine how skin color influences an individual's politics and whether a person's political views influence how they assess their own skin color. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ostfeld and Yadon surveyed over 1,300 people about their political views, including party affiliation, their opinions on welfare, and the importance of speaking English in the U.S. The authors created a matrix grounded in their \"Roots of Race\" framework, which predicts the relationship between skin color and political attitudes for each ethnoracial group based on the blurriness of the group's boundaries and historical levels of privilege. They draw upon three distinct measures of skin color to conceptualize the relationship between skin color and political views: \"Machine-Rated Skin Color,\" measured with a light-reflectance meter; \"Self-Assessed Skin Color,\" using the Yadon-Ostfeld Skin Color Scale; and \"Skin Color Discrepancy,\" the difference between one's Machine-Rated and Self-Assessed Skin Color. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ostfeld and Yadon examine patterns that emerge among these measures, and their relationships with life experiences and political stances. Among Latinos, a group with relatively blurry group boundaries and low levels of historical privilege, the authors find a robust relationship between political views and Self-Assessed Skin Color. Latinos who overestimate the lightness of their skin color are more likely to hold conservative views on current racialized political issues, such as policing. Latinos who overestimate the darkness of their skin color, on the other hand, are more likely to hold liberal political views. As America's major political parties remain divided on issues of race, this suggests that for Latinos, self-reported skin color is used as a means of aligning oneself with valued political coalitions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e African Americans, another group with low levels of historical privilege but with more clearly defined group boundaries, demonstrated no significant relationship between skin color and political attitudes. Thus, the lived experiences associated with being African American appeared to supersede the differences in life experiences due to skin color. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Whites, a group with more historical privilege and increasingly blurry group boundaries, showed a clear relationship between machine-assessed skin color and attitudes on political issues. Those with darker Machine-Rated Skin Color are more likely to hold conservative views, suggesting that they are responding to the threat of losing their privilege in a multicultural society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At a time when the U.S. is both more diverse and politically divided, \u003ci\u003eSkin Color, Power, and Politics in America\u003c\/i\u003eis a timely account of the ways in which skin color and politics are intertwined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARA OSTFELD\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant research scientist at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNICOLE YADON \u003c\/b\u003eis an assistant professor of political science at The Ohio State University. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157386891399,"sku":"9780871546371","price":60.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/92f867b7e7ed3a5d6b05178a9c9bc96a.webp?v=1733250424","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/skin-color-power-and-politics-in-america-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}