Category: Intersectionality

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.

Attractiveness research + white gaze

De La Garza, H., & Vashi, N. A. (2024). The Concept of Beauty and Its Evolutionary Basis. In Critical Thinking in Contemporary Dermatology: Cognitive Essays.

Feingold, A. (1992). Good-looking people are not what we think. Psychological bulletin.

Kang, J. M. (1996). Deconstructing the ideology of white aesthetics. Michigan Journal of Race and Law.

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. Psychological bulletin.

Maddox, K. B. (2004). Perspectives on racial phenotypicality bias. Personality and Social Psychology Review.

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.

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 features + trait stereotyping

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, 83(1), 5

Dion, K., Berscheid, E., & Walster, E. (1972). What is beautiful is good. Journal of personality and social psychology, 24(3), 285.

Jablonski, N. G. (2021). Skin color and race. American journal of physical anthropology, 175(2), 437-447.

Maddox, K. B., & Gray, S. A. (2002). Cognitive representations of Black Americans: Reexploring the role of skin tone. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28(2), 250-259.

Zebrowitz, L. A., & Collins, M. A. (1997). Accurate social perception at zero acquaintance: The affordances of a Gibsonian approach. Personality and social psychology review, 1(3), 204-223.

Cesare Lombroso

Albrecht, A. (1910). Cesare Lombroso. A Glance at his life work. Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1(2), 71-83.

Knepper, P., & Ystehede, P. J. (Eds.). (2013). The Cesare Lombroso Handbook (preview). New York: Routledge.

Knepper, P., & Ystehede, P. J. (Eds.). (2013). The Cesare Lombroso Handbook. New York: Routledge.

Lombroso, C. (2006). Criminal Man (M. Gibson & N. H. Rafter, Trans.). Duke University Press. (Original work published 1876).

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.

Racialised aesthetic inequality

Feliciano, C. (2016). Shades of race: How phenotype and observer characteristics shape racial classification.

Lamont, M., Beljean, S., & Clair, M. (2014). What is missing? Cultural processes and causal pathways to inequality.

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

Monk Jr, E. P., Esposito, M. H., & Lee, H. (2021). Beholding inequality: Race, gender, and returns to physical attractiveness in the United States.

Petersen, A. M. (2017). Complicating race: Afrocentric facial feature bias and prison sentencing in Oregon.