"[…] about 87 percent of people in mainstream magazine ads are white, about 3 percent are African-American (most likely appearing as athletes or musicians), and less than 1 percent are Hispanic or Asian."
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Jean Kilbourne, Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel (1999, 30-31); alternately titled Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising (1999)
That’s why there are and always needs to be PoC-centered magazines.
(via daniellemertina)
Ugh yes. I hate when people give me shit for being supportive of black/PoC-centric media outlets and call it “separatist.” Pardon me for having to FIGHT to see people who look like me in anything even remotely positive. I guess you wouldn’t know what that’s like.
(via ethiopienne)
(Source: tiiigerstyle, via ethiopienne)
