Author: Branded Bodies

Beauty as embodied experience

Blair, I. V., Judd, C. M., Sadler, M. S., & Jenkins, C. (2002). The role of Afrocentric features in person perception: judging by features and categories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Cash, T. F. (1990). Losing hair, losing points? The effects of male pattern baldness on social impression formation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

St. Bernard, J. S., & Gallagher, S. (2022). Race and the implicit aspects of embodied social interaction. In R. J. Thompson (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of philosophy and implicit cognition (pp. 313-323). Routledge.

Soliman, T., & Glenberg, A. M. (2014). The embodiment of culture. In L. Shapiro (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition (pp. 207-219). Routledge.

Willis, J., & Todorov, A. (2006). First impressions: Making up your mind after a 100-ms exposure to a face. Psychological Science.

White beauty as science

Bhopal, R. (2007). The beautiful skull and Blumenbach’s errors: the birth of the scientific concept of race. bmj.

Junker, T. (2018). Blumenbach’s theory of human races and the natural unity of humankind. In N. Rupke & G. Lauer (Eds.), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Routledge.

Painter, N. I. (2010). The history of White people. WW Norton & Company.

Richards, R. J. (2018). The beautiful skulls of Schiller and the Georgian girl: quantitative and aesthetic scaling of the races 1770-1850. In N. Rupke & G. Lauer (Eds.), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Routledge.

Teo, T. (2009). Psychology without Caucasians. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne.

Cacophobia: the fear of ugliness

Cavico, F. J., Muffler, S. C., & Mujtaba, B. G. (2012). Appearance Discrimination, Lookism And Lookphobia In The Workplace. Journal of Applied Business Research.

Martin‐Seaver, M. (2023). Personal beauty and personal agency. Philosophy Compass.

Mason, A. (2021). What’s wrong with everyday lookism? Politics, Philosophy & Economics.

Mason, A. (2023). What’s wrong with lookism? Personal appearance, discrimination, and disadvantage. Oxford University Press.

Minerva, F. (2017). The invisible discrimination before our eyes: A bioethical analysis. Bioethics.

Spiegel, T. J. (2023). Lookism as epistemic injustice. Social Epistemology.

Takáč, P. (2020). Current issues in aesthetics and beyond: revisiting lookism. Ethics & Bioethics.

Zylbersztejn, A., Babutsidze, Z., Hanaki, N., & Hopfensitz, A. (2024). How beautiful people see the world: Cooperativeness judgments of and by beautiful people. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

White slavery + beauty prestige

Barker, H. (2023). Slavery in the Black Sea region. In D.A. Pargas, and J. Schiel (eds.), The Palgrave handbook of global slavery throughout history. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Open Access.

Fredrickson, B. L., & Roberts, T. A. (1997). Objectification theory: Toward understanding women’s lived experiences and mental health risks. Psychology of women quarterly.

Moxey, K. P. (1991). Semiotics and the social history of art. New Literary History, 985-999.

Painter, N. I. (2010). The history of White people. WW Norton & Company.

Birth of universal rationalism

Blaut, J. M. (2000). Eight Eurocentric historians. The Guilford Press.

Copeland, S. (2022). Relational ignorance. In  S. Arfini and L. Magnani, Embodied, Extended, ignorant minds: New studies on the nature of not-knowing (pp. 15-35). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Heit, H. (2005). Western identity, barbarians and the inheritance of Greek universalism. The European Legacy.

Maiese, M. (2022). Mindshaping, racist habits, and white ignorance. In  S. Arfini and L. Magnani, Embodied, Extended, ignorant minds: New studies on the nature of not-knowing (pp. 77-98). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Wintle, M. (2020). Eurocentrism: History, identity, white man’s burden. Routledge.

Ways of seeing

Arfini, S. & Magnani, L. (2022). Embodied, extended, ignorant minds: New studies on the nature of not-knowing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01922-7. Springer.

Hardy, K. V. (2022). The enduring, invisible, and ubiquitous centrality of whiteness. W. W. Norton & Company.

Maise, M. (2022). Mindshaping, racist habits, and white ignorance. In S. Arfini and L. Magnani (Eds.), Embodied, extended, ignorant minds: New studies on the nature of not-knowing (pp. 77-98). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01922-7_5. Springer.

Mills, C. (1997). The racial contract. Cornell University Press.

Mills, C. W. (2017). Philosophy and the Racial Contract. In N. Zack (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race (pp. 65-76). Oxford University Press.

Roberts, S. O., & Mortenson, E. (2023). Challenging the White= neutral framework in psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Whitt, M. S. (2016). Other people’s problems: Student distancing, epistemic responsibility, and injustice. Studies in Philosophy and Education.

Body Prism

Brand, B. (2023). Body prism: An exploration of aesthetic embodied ageing [In preparation, doctoral dissertation]. University of Kent.

Jablonski N. (2021). The evolution of human skin pigmentation involved the interactions of genetic, environmental, and cultural variables. Pigment Cell Melanoma Research.

Jablonski, N. (2020). Skin color and race. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Jablonski, N. (2017). The anthropology of skin colors: An examination of the evolution of skin pigmentation and the concepts of race and skin of color. In N. Vashi & H. Maibach (Eds.). Dermatoanthropology of ethnic skin and hair, (pp. 1-11).

Jablonski, N. and Chaplin, G. (2017). The colours of humanity: the evolution of pigmentation in the human lineage. Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

The philosophy of Aesthetics…

Berleant, A. (2015). Aesthetic sensibility. Ambiance: International journal of sensory environment, architecture and urban space.

Eco, U. (2007). On ugliness.

Leddy, T. (2012). The extraordinary in the ordinary: The aesthetics of everyday life. Broadview Press.

Light, A., & Smith, J. (Eds.). (2005). The aesthetics of everyday life. Columbia University Press.

Mandoki, K. (2007). Everyday aesthetics: Prosaics, the play of culture and social identities. Aldershot and Burlington.

Mandoki, K. (2015). The indispensable excess of the aesthetic: Evolution of sensibility in nature. Lexington Books.

Shusterman, R. (2012). Thinking through the body: Essays in somaesthetics. Cambridge University Press.