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Are lighter-skinned Tanisha and Jamal worth more pay? White people’s gendered colorism toward Black job applicants with racialized names

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Pages 896-917 | Received 07 Mar 2020, Accepted 16 Feb 2021, Published online: 24 Mar 2021

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