Panel 6: Lightening By Any Means: Cosmetic, Chemical and Genetic Interventions

Fri December 2, 2005

Joanne Rondilla, UC Berkeley | Evelyn Nakano Glenn, UC Berkeley | Noliwe Rooks, Princeton University | Charis Thompson, UC Berkeley

Hierarchies of Color Conference
UC Berkeley, Center for Race & Gender 2005

Panel 6: Lightening By Any Means: Cosmetic, Chemical and Genetic Interventions

*Joanne Rondilla, ES, UC Berkeley
Skin lighteners and cosmetics use among Filipinas

*Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Gender and Women’s Studies, UCB
Yearning for Lightness: Global Circuits in the Production and Marketing of Skin Whiteners

+Noliwe Rooks, African American Studies Program, Princeton
Hair and beauty culture among African American women

*Charis Thompson Rhetoric and GWS, UCB
Race/Color in Assisted Reproduction (the sperm donor market)