Meeta (University of California, Berkeley) Jha 
The Global Beauty Industry [PDF ebook] 
Colorism, Racism, and the National Body

The Global Beauty Industry is an interdisciplinary text that uses beauty to explore topics of gender, race, class, colorism, nation, bodies, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and intersectionality. Integrating materials from a wide range of cultural and geo-political contexts, it coalesces with initiatives to produce more internationally relevant curricula in fields such as sociology, as well as cultural, women”s/gender, media, and globalization studies.