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Beyond Black and White But Still in Color

Preliminary Findings of Skin Tone and Marriage Attitudes and Outcomes among African American Young Adults

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Color Struck

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Abstract

None of the boys wanted to marry me because I was too dark and they were already asking me “you know your children are going to come out really, really dark and that’s not good.” But my light skinned friend got married to a different boy every day. But, I didn’t because I wasn’t light enough, and that really hurt my feelings, and to this day, it still brings me back to the idea that I’m not good enough (Awad et al., 2014, p. 550).

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Landor, A.M. (2017). Beyond Black and White But Still in Color. In: Martin, L.L., Horton, H.D., Herring, C., Keith, V.M., Thomas, M. (eds) Color Struck. Teaching Race and Ethnicity. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-110-0_3

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