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The Effect Of Colorist Images On Appearance Concerns Of Black Women, Leah Boepple
The Effect Of Colorist Images On Appearance Concerns Of Black Women, Leah Boepple
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
American culture supports a colorist system that values lighter skin tones in women of color, and these norms are communicated in some part by images present in our society. Previous research has not explored the impact that colorist images may have on the psychological health and appearance concerns of women of color. The purpose of the current study was to determine whether exposure to images of Black women who more closely meet colorist beauty standards (i.e., lighter skin) would negatively impact women’s psychological health and general appearance concerns. It was hypothesized that participants exposed to colorist images of Black women …