Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080 01419870.2014.952752 T

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Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080 01419870.2014.952752 The salience of skin tone: effects on the exercise of police enforcement authority Karletta M. White (Received 17 December 2013: accepted 28 July 2014) Using nationally representative data I examine the relationship between skin tone and police contact, in particular, the relationship between blacks and Latinos' skin tone and being stopped or arrested by the police, controlling for prior delinquency and other important factors. Descriptive results show that darker-skinned blacks and Latinos are stopped and arrested more often than lighter-skinned members of the same group. When controlling for delinquency alone, blacks experience a significant increase in the number of times they are stopped and an 18% increase in the odds of being arrested by police as skin tone darkens. For Latinos, the interaction of skin tone and gender significantly affects the odds of police stops and arrests even controlling for demographic factors, suggesting that future research on skin tone should incorporate analysis for Latino/as as well as blacks Keywords: skin tone; race; blacks; Latinos; police contact; racial profiling Blacks and Latinos are disproportionately stopped for questioning and arrested compared to whites, making the issue of racial discrimination by police a hot topic for many scholars (see Lundman and Kaufman 2003; Reitzel, Rice, and Piquero 2004; Skogan and Frydl 2004; Kochel, Wilson, and Mastrofski 2011 ) and federal agencies (e. g. Durose, Smith, and Langan 2007). Recent research has also begun to shed light on how skin tone may affect blacks' and Latinos' experience with police contact (Barlow and Barlow 2002; Dixon and Maddox 2005) and the criminal justice system (e.g Viglione, Hannon, and DeFina 201; Gyimah-Brempong and Price 2006). The existing literature on skin tone primarily emphasizes the social and economic advantages experienced by light-skinned minorities compared to their darker-skinned peers (e.g Allen, Telles, and Hunter 2000; Porter 1991; Hughes and Hertel 1990; Udry, Bauman, and Chase 1971). This study will assess the relationship between differences in skin tone for both blacks and Latinos and their experiences of police contact during young adulthood, in order to assess whether those with darker skin are stopped by the police or arrested more often than those in the same racial group but with a lighter skin tone. Contung impact of skin tone Continuing Preferences for lighter skin and straight hair (Bond and Cash 1992) associated with intemalized stereotypes of beauty' and 'civilization (Fanon 1967) remain both within 2014 Taylor & Francis

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this study is to show the relation between the black and latinos people with police, the author tried and found some real facts in which he found that blacks and latinos are frequently stoped or arrested by police as compared to white skin tone people.

the author by this wants to convey a simple message to the public that colour tone do affects now a days too. equality is some how shown but not yet happen with dark people.

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