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Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color Paperback - 2014

by Nina G. Jablonski


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"Among traits that differ between human populations, skin color is the most noticeable, the subject of the most comments, and the hardest to understand. In this fascinating book, Nina Jablonski negotiates this mine field and comes up with many surprises." -Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse

"Nina Jablonski is a world-renowned expert on human pigmentation, and one of the leaders in the science of anthropology. In Living Color she has done a brilliant job of explaining the biological and cultural significance of our skin tones in non-technical terms. Living Color should be required reading for every high school and college student." -Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Race Bomb and The Dominant Animal

"Grounded firmly in the science of human history, this groundbreaking book brings the biological and social meanings of skin color into dialogue with one another, creating an open, rich, and essential conversation about this fact of life that differentiates us from one another but that ultimately, and profoundly, unites us." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Faces of America and Tradition and the Black Atlantic

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  • Title Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color
  • Author Nina G. Jablonski
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date 2014-10-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780520283862 / 0520283864
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 6.09 x 0.72 in (22.76 x 15.47 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
  • Dewey Decimal Code 573.5

About the author

Nina G. Jablonski is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Skin: A Natural History, (UC Press), and was named one of the first Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellows for her efforts to improve the public understanding of skin color.
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