A Design Research on
Visual Identity Politics in an age of Cultural Diversity
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Encyclopedia of —isms

Cultural Appropriation

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Am I appropriating black culture with my Adidas?
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Black face, White wash

Stereotypes

Kim Kardashian’s ‘Black Face’

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Beckeisha

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Re-mix

Why cartoon characters wear gloves — Vox

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Black face, White wash

Stereotypes

Last Week Tonight’s Whitewashing 

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Last Week Tonight's How is this still a thing: Hollywood Whitewashing

Black face, White wash

Stereotypes

Snapchat’s Bob Marley filter

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Snapchat's Bob Marley filter

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Black face, White wash

Blackface as a protest against racism

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Uit protest tegen een incident waarbij twee Soedanese vluchtelingen en ploeggenoten uitgescholden en geslagen zijn, ging de hele selectie van Deinster zwart geschminkt op de foto.

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Institutional Racism

All Lives Matter: 1800s Edition by Anthony McPherson

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All Lives Matter: 1800s edition

Black face, White wash

Reversing the stereotype

The construct of race

French TV-Experiment Dans la peau d’une noir

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A black family's transformation into a white family by professional make up.

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1001 streams of whiteness

Race-ism

Trayvon Martin & Geroge Zimmerman

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Greg Cimeno and William Filene thought it would be a good idea to dress up as Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman this Halloween, 2013.

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