Margaret Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3939079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mills College |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-7283-1076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 365 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Prescribed, ritualized, and activated belonging: A qualitative study of student belonging at a historically Black college and university
Neighborhood Priority or Desegregation Plans? A Spatial Analysis of Voting on San Francisco’s Student Assignment System
Cultural translation of refugee trauma: Cultural idioms of distress among Somali refugees in displacement
Westernized approaches to mental health care often place limited emphasis on refugees' own experiences and cultural explanations of symptoms and distress. In order to effectively assess community mental health needs and develop interventions grounded in local needs, mental health programs need to be informed by an understanding of cultural features of mental health, including cultural idioms of distress (CIDs). The current study aims to explore C…
Colorism in the Classroom: How Skin Tone Stratifies African American and Latina/o Students
Although racial inequality is frequently studied in education, skin tone stratification has received less attention from educational researchers. Inequality by skin tone, also known as colorism, contributes to larger patterns of racial inequality for African Americans and Latina/os. Discrimination by skin tone affects many dimensions of life, including education, employment, housing, spousal status, criminal justice sentencing, and even levels of…
Latinos and the Skin Color Paradox: Skin Color, National Origin, and Political Attitudes
For African Americans and Latinos, skin color is a significant predictor of many social and economic stratification variables including income, education, housing, occupational status, spousal status, poverty rates, criminal justice sentencing, and rates of depression. Given these patterns, some scholars have surprisingly found that skin color is not a significant predictor of many political attitudes for African Americans, and called this phenom…
Shake it, Baby, Shake it: Consumption and the New Gender Relation in Hip-Hop
Hip-hop is a popular music genre that has generated a multi-billion dollar industry. Although its gender and race relations have historically been problematic, they have recently transformed in particular ways. This study examines the forty-one best-selling rap videos of 2007–2008. Through a qualitative content analysis of videos and lyrics several themes emerged. Hip-hop's focus on conspicuous consumption, buttressed by the success of entreprene…
Race, Class, and Imagining the Urban
In the social sciences, there is no paucity of studies about the urban as a “real” place. To take a few examples, in Massey and Denton’s (1993) American Apartheid, the ghetto receives plenty of attention, as a historical process whereby blacks suffer from whites’ deliberate construction of housing segregation at the turn of the twentieth century. In Anyon’s (1997) own analysis of the ghetto, she traces its origins in the political economy and the…
The Cost of Color: What We Pay for Being Black and Brown
Teaching and Learning Guide for: The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality
Author's introduction Most research on race and ethnicity focuses on discrimination patterns against entire groups, such as African Americans, Latina/os, Asian Americans, or American Indians. The study of colorism is unique because it investigates intraracial hierarchies of skin color. Studies of colorism examine how the actual lightness or darkness of a person's skin tone affects his or her life opportunities such as education, income, and housi…
The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality
Colorism is a persistent problem for people of color in the USA. Colorism, or skin color stratification, is a process that privileges light‐skinned people of color over dark in areas such as income, education, housing, and the marriage market. This essay describes the experiences of African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans with regard to skin color. Research demonstrates that light‐skinned people have clear advantages in these areas, even …
Rethinking epistemology, methodology, and racism: Or, is White sociology really dead
If You're Light You're Alright: Light Skin Color as Social Capital for Women of Color
This article uses two national survey data sets to analyze the effects of skin color on life outcomes for African American and Mexican American women. Using a historical framework of European colonialism and slavery, this article explains how skin color hierarchies were established and are maintained. The concept of social capital is used to explain how beauty, defined through light skin, works as capital and as a stratifying agent for women on t…
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States
What about the White Women: Racial Politics in a Women's Studies Classroom
This paper is an analysis of racial politics in a women's studies course. As instructors of a course entitled "Women of Color," we experienced much resistance from students about the de-centering of whiteness in the curriculum. In this article, we use Frankenberg's (1993) concepts of whiteness, power evasiveness, and race consciousness to theorize the origins of and solutions to this resistance. Further, we describe how ideologies of colorblindne…
Colorstruck: Skin Color Stratification in the Lives of African American Women
This paper examines the stratification among African American women by skin color on indices such as education, income, and spousal status. How racial and colonial ideologies situate whiteness and blackness as symbolic representations in relation to one another and the subsequent systems of discrimination that develop from those ideologies is the crux of the theoretical argument in this paper. Infusing the concept of constructed notions of beauty…
Working with the past
Recent publicity surrounding one particular case has directed attention again to how much information should be shared with prospective adopters about a child's past. Margaret Hunter describes her work with children separated from their families of origin whose placements have come under strain
Julia: A ‘Frozen’ Child
The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality
Colorism is a persistent problem for people of color in the USA. Colorism, or skin color stratification, is a process that privileges light‐skinned people of color over dark in areas such as income, education, housing, and the marriage market. This essay describes the experiences of African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans with regard to skin color. Research demonstrates that light‐skinned people have clear advantages in these areas, even …
If You're Light You're Alright: Light Skin Color as Social Capital for Women of Color
This article uses two national survey data sets to analyze the effects of skin color on life outcomes for African American and Mexican American women. Using a historical framework of European colonialism and slavery, this article explains how skin color hierarchies were established and are maintained. The concept of social capital is used to explain how beauty, defined through light skin, works as capital and as a stratifying agent for women on t…
Colorstruck: Skin Color Stratification in the Lives of African American Women
This paper examines the stratification among African American women by skin color on indices such as education, income, and spousal status. How racial and colonial ideologies situate whiteness and blackness as symbolic representations in relation to one another and the subsequent systems of discrimination that develop from those ideologies is the crux of the theoretical argument in this paper. Infusing the concept of constructed notions of beauty…
Colorism in the Classroom: How Skin Tone Stratifies African American and Latina/o Students
Although racial inequality is frequently studied in education, skin tone stratification has received less attention from educational researchers. Inequality by skin tone, also known as colorism, contributes to larger patterns of racial inequality for African Americans and Latina/os. Discrimination by skin tone affects many dimensions of life, including education, employment, housing, spousal status, criminal justice sentencing, and even levels of…
Rethinking epistemology, methodology, and racism: Or, is White sociology really dead
Cultural translation of refugee trauma: Cultural idioms of distress among Somali refugees in displacement
Westernized approaches to mental health care often place limited emphasis on refugees' own experiences and cultural explanations of symptoms and distress. In order to effectively assess community mental health needs and develop interventions grounded in local needs, mental health programs need to be informed by an understanding of cultural features of mental health, including cultural idioms of distress (CIDs). The current study aims to explore C…
Latinos and the Skin Color Paradox: Skin Color, National Origin, and Political Attitudes
For African Americans and Latinos, skin color is a significant predictor of many social and economic stratification variables including income, education, housing, occupational status, spousal status, poverty rates, criminal justice sentencing, and rates of depression. Given these patterns, some scholars have surprisingly found that skin color is not a significant predictor of many political attitudes for African Americans, and called this phenom…
What about the White Women: Racial Politics in a Women's Studies Classroom
This paper is an analysis of racial politics in a women's studies course. As instructors of a course entitled "Women of Color," we experienced much resistance from students about the de-centering of whiteness in the curriculum. In this article, we use Frankenberg's (1993) concepts of whiteness, power evasiveness, and race consciousness to theorize the origins of and solutions to this resistance. Further, we describe how ideologies of colorblindne…
Teaching and Learning Guide for: The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality
Author's introduction Most research on race and ethnicity focuses on discrimination patterns against entire groups, such as African Americans, Latina/os, Asian Americans, or American Indians. The study of colorism is unique because it investigates intraracial hierarchies of skin color. Studies of colorism examine how the actual lightness or darkness of a person's skin tone affects his or her life opportunities such as education, income, and housi…
Working with the past
Recent publicity surrounding one particular case has directed attention again to how much information should be shared with prospective adopters about a child's past. Margaret Hunter describes her work with children separated from their families of origin whose placements have come under strain
Julia: A ‘Frozen’ Child
Working with the past
Recent publicity surrounding one particular case has directed attention again to how much information should be shared with prospective adopters about a child's past. Margaret Hunter describes her work with children separated from their families of origin whose placements have come under strain
Colorstruck: Skin Color Stratification in the Lives of African American Women
This paper examines the stratification among African American women by skin color on indices such as education, income, and spousal status. How racial and colonial ideologies situate whiteness and blackness as symbolic representations in relation to one another and the subsequent systems of discrimination that develop from those ideologies is the crux of the theoretical argument in this paper. Infusing the concept of constructed notions of beauty…
What about the White Women: Racial Politics in a Women's Studies Classroom
This paper is an analysis of racial politics in a women's studies course. As instructors of a course entitled "Women of Color," we experienced much resistance from students about the de-centering of whiteness in the curriculum. In this article, we use Frankenberg's (1993) concepts of whiteness, power evasiveness, and race consciousness to theorize the origins of and solutions to this resistance. Further, we describe how ideologies of colorblindne…
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States
Rethinking epistemology, methodology, and racism: Or, is White sociology really dead
If You're Light You're Alright: Light Skin Color as Social Capital for Women of Color
This article uses two national survey data sets to analyze the effects of skin color on life outcomes for African American and Mexican American women. Using a historical framework of European colonialism and slavery, this article explains how skin color hierarchies were established and are maintained. The concept of social capital is used to explain how beauty, defined through light skin, works as capital and as a stratifying agent for women on t…
The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality
Colorism is a persistent problem for people of color in the USA. Colorism, or skin color stratification, is a process that privileges light‐skinned people of color over dark in areas such as income, education, housing, and the marriage market. This essay describes the experiences of African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans with regard to skin color. Research demonstrates that light‐skinned people have clear advantages in these areas, even …
The Cost of Color: What We Pay for Being Black and Brown
Teaching and Learning Guide for: The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality
Author's introduction Most research on race and ethnicity focuses on discrimination patterns against entire groups, such as African Americans, Latina/os, Asian Americans, or American Indians. The study of colorism is unique because it investigates intraracial hierarchies of skin color. Studies of colorism examine how the actual lightness or darkness of a person's skin tone affects his or her life opportunities such as education, income, and housi…
Race, Class, and Imagining the Urban
In the social sciences, there is no paucity of studies about the urban as a “real” place. To take a few examples, in Massey and Denton’s (1993) American Apartheid, the ghetto receives plenty of attention, as a historical process whereby blacks suffer from whites’ deliberate construction of housing segregation at the turn of the twentieth century. In Anyon’s (1997) own analysis of the ghetto, she traces its origins in the political economy and the…
Shake it, Baby, Shake it: Consumption and the New Gender Relation in Hip-Hop
Hip-hop is a popular music genre that has generated a multi-billion dollar industry. Although its gender and race relations have historically been problematic, they have recently transformed in particular ways. This study examines the forty-one best-selling rap videos of 2007–2008. Through a qualitative content analysis of videos and lyrics several themes emerged. Hip-hop's focus on conspicuous consumption, buttressed by the success of entreprene…
Latinos and the Skin Color Paradox: Skin Color, National Origin, and Political Attitudes
For African Americans and Latinos, skin color is a significant predictor of many social and economic stratification variables including income, education, housing, occupational status, spousal status, poverty rates, criminal justice sentencing, and rates of depression. Given these patterns, some scholars have surprisingly found that skin color is not a significant predictor of many political attitudes for African Americans, and called this phenom…
Colorism in the Classroom: How Skin Tone Stratifies African American and Latina/o Students
Although racial inequality is frequently studied in education, skin tone stratification has received less attention from educational researchers. Inequality by skin tone, also known as colorism, contributes to larger patterns of racial inequality for African Americans and Latina/os. Discrimination by skin tone affects many dimensions of life, including education, employment, housing, spousal status, criminal justice sentencing, and even levels of…
Neighborhood Priority or Desegregation Plans? A Spatial Analysis of Voting on San Francisco’s Student Assignment System
Cultural translation of refugee trauma: Cultural idioms of distress among Somali refugees in displacement
Westernized approaches to mental health care often place limited emphasis on refugees' own experiences and cultural explanations of symptoms and distress. In order to effectively assess community mental health needs and develop interventions grounded in local needs, mental health programs need to be informed by an understanding of cultural features of mental health, including cultural idioms of distress (CIDs). The current study aims to explore C…
Prescribed, ritualized, and activated belonging: A qualitative study of student belonging at a historically Black college and university
Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Skin color (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (4 works)