{"id":25994,"date":"2010-08-08T10:05:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T15:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=25994"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:12:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T09:12:30","slug":"race-in-seventeen-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/08\/08\/race-in-seventeen-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Race in Seventeen Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamie Keiles, of\u00a0 the Seventeen Magazine Project<\/a> and Teenagerie<\/a>, wondered how racially representative Seventeen <\/em>was compared to the U.S. population.\u00a0 So she offered some data based on the May 2010 issue<\/a>.\u00a0 Her methods:<\/p>\n

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There are 332 faces in this month’s issue of Seventeen. I counted a face as a head with at least one visible eye. That is, backs of heads and disembodied mouths or eyes were not included in my data. I researched the races of the models and celebrities that I could identify. Those whose race I could not determine with reasonable certainty I’ve excluded from my data, making for 319 surveyed faces.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
She found that Seventeen was not representative (it was nine percent more white than the U.S. population and especially under-represented Hispanics).\u00a0 Still, she concluded that it was surprisingly representative, considering what she’d heard about the modeling industry.\u00a0 Her findings actually reflect Ashley Mears’ argument that there is much more diversity among “commercial” models than “high end” fashion models<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Keiles was also surprised by the fact that, compared to the U.S. population, there were many models who identified as bi-racial.\u00a0 My guess is that it’s because advertisers think (and perhaps know, but I’m not sure) that models whose identities are hard to discern appeal to a larger array of audience members who may see themselves in what is otherwise an “ambiguous” appearance.<\/p>\n

Any ideas as to why white Hispanics are particularly underrepresented?\u00a0 Is it possible that white Hispanic models simply identify publicly as “white”?\u00a0 Other ideas?<\/p>\n

Keiles finds a similar patterns when she looks by gender and by whether it was Seventeen <\/em>content or advertiser content:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/div>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamie Keiles, of\u00a0 the Seventeen Magazine Project and Teenagerie, wondered how racially representative Seventeen was compared to the U.S. population.\u00a0 So she offered some data based on the May 2010 issue.\u00a0 Her methods: There are 332 faces in this month’s issue of Seventeen. I counted a face as a head with at least one visible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,55,778,129,285,1759,1760,1754,1761,1757],"class_list":["post-25994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-intersectionality","tag-media","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-multiracial","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25994"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59870,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25994\/revisions\/59870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}