Category: Communication

Beauty + Ethnocentrism

Etcoff, N. (1999). Survival of the prettiest: The science of beauty. Little, Brown and Company.

Herskovits, M. J. (1937). The significance of the study of acculturation for anthropology. American Anthropologist.

Kang, J. M. (1997). Deconstructing the ideology of white aesthetics. Michigan journal of race & law.

Keesing, R. M. (1965). Cultural Anthropology: A contemporary perspective. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Sumner, W. G. (1906). Folkways: A study of mores, manners, customs and morals. New York: Ginn and Company.

Van der Geest, S. (1995). Overcoming ethnocentrism: how social science and medicine relate and should relate to one another. Social Science & Medicine.

Westermarck, E. (1921). The history of human marriage. Macmillan.

Donyale Luna

Cazzangia, D. (2023). Donyale Luna changed the face of fashion in the ’60s. Now, the revolutionary Black model is finally getting her due. British Vogue online.

Jefferson, N. (Director). (2023). Donyale Luna: Supermodel [documentary]. HBO.

Collins, C. (2023). Donyale Luna, the trailblazing Black supermodel gets her due. W magazine online.

Wikipedia contributors. (2024, October 13). Donyale Luna. Wikipedia.

Hypodescent

Dovidio, J. F., Gaertner, S. L., & Pearson, A. R. (2017). Aversive Racism and Contemporary Bias.

Ho, A. K., Sidanius, J., Levin, D. T., & Banaji, M. R. (2011). Evidence for hypodescent and racial hierarchy in the categorization and perception of biracial individuals. Journal of personality and social psychology, 100(3), 492.

Pauker, K., Meyers, C., Sanchez, D. T., Gaither, S. E., & Young, D. M. (2018). A review of multiracial malleability: Identity, categorization, and shifting racial attitudes. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 12(6), e12392.

Rajan-Rankin, S. (2018). Race, embodiment, and later life: Re-animating aging bodies of color. Journal of Aging Studies, 45, 32–38.

Veenstra, G. (2011). Mismatched racial identities, colourism, and health in Toronto and Vancouver. Social Science & Medicine, 73(8), 1152–1162.

Vince, R. (2024). After Objectification: Locating Harm. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 41(3), 442-462.

Young, D. M., Sanchez, D. T., Pauker, K., & Gaither, S. E. (2021). A meta-analytic review of hypodescent patterns in categorizing multiracial and racially ambiguous targets. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(5), 705–727.

Nasus Geometric

Farkas, L.G., Kolar, J.C. & Munro, I.R. (1986). Geography of the nose: A morphometric study. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 10, 191–223.

Guerrieri, M., Omer, G. L., Rashid, R. H., & Di Girolamo, S. (2022). Shape and function of the nose. In P. G. Giacomini (Ed.), Mediterranean rhinoplasty (pp. 1-20). Springer.

Marks, T., Maddux, S. D., Butaric, L. N., & Franciscus, R. G. (2019). Climatic adaptation in human inferior nasal turbinate morphology: evidence from arctic and equatorial populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 169(3), 498-512.

Saad, A., Hewett, S., Nolte, M., Delaunay, F., Saad, M. & Cohen, S. R. (2018). Ethnic Rhinoplasty in Female Patients: The Neoclassical Canons Revisited. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 42, 565–576.

Zaidi, A. A., Mattern, B. C., Claes, P., McEcoy, B., Hughes, C., & Shriver, M. D. (2017). Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation. PLoS genetics, 13(3), e1006616.

Facial Impressions + masculinity

Bar, M., Neta, M., & Linz, H. (2006). Very first impressions.

Oh, D., Dotsch, R., Porter, J., & Todorov, A. (2020). Gender biases in impressions from faces: Empirical studies and computational models.

Oosterhof, N. N., & Todorov, A. (2008). The functional basis of face evaluation.

Todorov, A., Said, C. P., Engell, A. D., & Oosterhof, N. N. (2008). Understanding evaluation of faces on social dimensions.

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

Theory of facial impression formation

Calder, A. J., & Rhodes, G., Johnson, M. H., & Haxby, J. V. (Eds.) (2011). Oxford handbook of face perception.

Oosterhof, N. N., & Todorov, A. (2008). The functional basis of face evaluation.

Secord, P. F. (1958). Facial features and inference processes in interpersonal perception. In R. Tagiuri & L. Petrullo (Eds.), Person perception and interpersonal behavior.

Sutherland, C. A. M., & Wong, A. W. (2021). Understanding trait impressions from faces.

Suzuki, A., & Suga, S. (2010). Enhanced memory for the wolf in sheep’s clothing:: Facial trustworthiness modulates face-trait associative memory. 

Vernon, R. J. W., Sutherland, C. A. M., Young, A. W., & Hartley, T. (2014). Modeling first impressions from highly variable facial images.

Young, A., & Bruce, V. (2013). Face perception.

Modern day phrenology

Berry, B. (2007). Beauty bias: Discrimination and social power.

De La Garza, H., & Vashi, N. A. (2024). The Concept of Beauty and Its Evolutionary Basis.

Lindsay, K. B., Smith, B. O., & White, D. R. (2024). Beauty in the eyes of the beholder.

Maddox, K. B. (2004). Perspectives on racial phenotypicality bias.

Maddox, K. B., Perry, J. M., & Pagan, J. (2022). Cues and categories: Revisiting paths to racial phenotypicality bias.

Rhode, D. L. (2010). The beauty bias: The injustice of appearance in life and law.

Beauty Mystique

Langlois, J. H. (1986; 2022). From the eye of the beholder to behavioral reality: Development of social behaviors and social relations as a function of physical attractiveness.

Langlois, J. H., Kalakanis, L., Rubenstein, A. J., Larson, A., Hallam, M., & Smoot, M. (2000). Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review. 

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1945/2012). Phenomenology of perception.

Snyder, M., Berscheid, E., & Glick, P. (1985). Focusing on the exterior and the interior: Two investigations of the initiation of personal relationships.

Snyder, M., Tanke, E. D., & Berscheid, E. (1977). Social perception and interpersonal behavior: On the self-fulfilling nature of social stereotypes. 

Violi, P. (2003). Embodiment at the crossroads between cognition and semiosis.

Taboo of racialised aesthetic discrimination

Kang, J. M. (1997). Deconstructing the ideology of White aesthetics.

Kaplinsky, C. (2008). Shifting shadows: shaping dynamics in the cultural unconscious.

LLoyd, D. (2019). Under representation: The racial regime of aesthetics.

Singer, T., & Kaplinsky C. (2010). Cultural Complexes in Analysis. In M. Stein (ed.), In Jungian psychoanalysis: Working in the spirit of C.G. Jung.

Singer, T., & Kimbles, S. L. (2004). The cultural complex: Contemporary Jungian perspectives on the psyche and society.

White beauty as Universal Ideal

Jones, J. (2019). Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors. Open Culture.

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

Pharos: Doing justice to the Classics.

Potts, A. (1994). Flesh and the ideal: Winckelmann and the origins of art history. Yale University Press.

Tautz, B. (Ed.). (2004). Colors 1800, 1900, 2000: signs of ethnic difference .