The Cost of Color: Skin Color, Discrimination, and Health among African-Americans1
The Cost of Color: Skin Color, Discrimination, and Health among African-Americans1
Ellis P. Monk
2015 · DOI: 10.1086/682162
American Journal of Sociology · 304 Citations
TLDR
The author finds that self-reported skin tone is a stronger predictor of perceived discrimination than interviewer-rated skin tone and highlights the utility of cognitive and multidimensional approaches to ethnoracial and social inequality.