While questions of diversity swirl around the global advertising industry, can adland also be accused of racism in the work it produces?
If nothing else, the scandal surrounding J.Walter Thompson’s former global chief executive Gustavo Martinez (see page 20) has once again raised the issue of racism in advertising.
Not only can the industry globally be accused of racism and a lack of diversity, but the work it produces too is frequently accused of peddling a white, Western view of beauty. Where all we aspire to is that personified by the white middle classes.
Kathy Deliovsky, a professor at Brock University in Canada, has written widely on racialised beauty norms and how they p
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