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Colorism, and the Erasure of Dark Skin in Advertising

Colorism, and the Erasure of Dark Skin in Advertising

A global history of colonization, slave trade, and the marginalization of darker skinned people has affected the way in which advertisers' market to consumers. The assumption is that a white audience is the standard, meaning that any deviation from that standard is immediately categorized as “oth...