Are you shocked by how much racism reared its head this past election? In hindsight, there were clues everywhere—even in the photo spreads of magazines aimed at women readers.
Newly published research examines the images found in 17 popular publications. It reports more than 90 percent of black, Asian, or Latina women had either light- or medium-toned skin.
Psychologists Leah Boepple and J. Kevin Thompson of the University of South Florida reveal their findings in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture. They examined the June 2014 issues of the 17 highest-circulation American magazines geared toward female readerships, including Elle,Seventeen, InStyle, Redbook, and Cosmopolitan.
They examined all 6,527 photographic images in the magazines, both from advertisements and editorial copy. A range of variables were coded to classify the 3,440 women who were pictured, including race, age, skin tone, facial features, and hair (including texture, length, and styling, or lack thereof).
[For more of this story, written by Tom Jacobs, go to https://psmag.com/the-implicit...a4ccd3dc4#.v68qv53wn]
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