The essays in this collection-by some of the nation’s leading thinkers on race and colorism-examine these phenomena, asking whether skin tone differentiation is imposed upon communities of color from the outside or is an internally-driven process aided and abetted by community members themselves. ...
European group of religions was given a new impetus in the work of the French comparative philologist and mythologist Georges Dumézil (1898–1986), who broke away from an etymological (analysis of word derivations) approach and sought instead the thematic traits of the gods in the mythical ...