When considering American marketing strategies, “sex sells” is the predominant tool used to increase revenue, drive product awareness, and sculpt public values. The beauty and fashion industry serves as a model for how the average consumer should look, talk, act, think, and dress – ultimately convincing individuals that they will never be good enough unless they conform to these standards dictated by the ruling class of western commercialization. It is no secret that Western media culture produces an inordinate amount of images of digitally altered, white women to keep consumers chasing after an impalpable vision of what it means to be beautiful.
It is western culture saturating the market as well as our society’s standards of women that ultimately …show more content…
A brand takes the most idealized version of societally bound standards and commercializes a privileged race, class, or gender to increase momentum of hegemony and racial capitalism.
This, as both philosophers Antonio Gramsci and Cedric Robinson would explain, is a direct effect of the formation of prioritizing a particular race and class thus manipulating our culture’s beliefs and values.
In Black Marxism, Professor Cedric Robinson traces the concept of competition between races back to the slave trade and argues that by whites reaping the benefits of black labor a force was driven between the two races, and thus the separation of power we see today. White dominance over black populations transformed the definition of race into one of classification. The blacks were deemed as the working class who were born, lived, and died
It is western culture saturating the market as well as our society’s standards of women that ultimately …show more content…
A brand takes the most idealized version of societally bound standards and commercializes a privileged race, class, or gender to increase momentum of hegemony and racial capitalism.
This, as both philosophers Antonio Gramsci and Cedric Robinson would explain, is a direct effect of the formation of prioritizing a particular race and class thus manipulating our culture’s beliefs and values.
In Black Marxism, Professor Cedric Robinson traces the concept of competition between races back to the slave trade and argues that by whites reaping the benefits of black labor a force was driven between the two races, and thus the separation of power we see today. White dominance over black populations transformed the definition of race into one of classification. The blacks were deemed as the working class who were born, lived, and died