Black Women In Advertisement Analysis

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For this assignment I plan to write about black women in advertisement. I plan to discuss the black culture art, style, hair representations, skin tone, media consumers and fashion representation. I plan on finding out more about the history on each subject I plan on researching, and how they affect others and which laws get violate on the black community. My plan is to define the conflict by a political, economical and social aspect. The problem right now is young women of the black community is growing up believing that the “white race” or “light skin” is better because of what they see in the advertisement. Black women are represented differently than other races in advertisement. For decades, Aunt Jemima, the Quaker Oats' pancake syrup

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