Book Jacket Cover Papers

Starting this project lead my creative juices flowing. It was hard trying to capture and promote a design that not only targeted young adults but also teenagers. In my dusk jacket I wanted to display the racial and stereotypical profiling of minorities. I also wanted to incorporate Chinese culture. Contemplating an idea for book jacket cover was very difficult. I did not know what I wanted my cover to look like. So, I did some research. Looked at book jackets and decided how I wanted mine to be original but still appeal to the same demographic. Advertising and appealing to the audiences sense of pathos, logos and ethos is hard. The advertiser does not know how people will act towards certain topics or items. I pondered on what did I want …show more content…
One of the central focus points in this comic is exposing how society makes fun and pokes at Chinese traditions or beliefs. It was not until I started creating this book jacket that I realized the author exposes minorities and foreign individuals, as being the other. Deciding to incorporate that into my book cover, I contemplated and unsure with how I would do that. Until, I was talking with a classmate about the assignment and jokingly said, “I am craving some chicken wangs from Jin Wang.” I am fully prepared to deal with any backlash that will come from this decision. Critics will question, “is it right to include an ignorant and racist statement on a cover of a book?” They would be right, it is not right to stereotype someones character based on there race. Although this is constantly been a political, social and financial problem facing the United States ever since it was founded, Minorities constantly have to “whiten” themselves, distancing themselves from being called and labeled as “ghetto, trash, uneducated, and foreign.” Thee united States says it is a country structured on being a melting pot. Sometimes it sure does not seem that way for the