Representations of race and skin tone in medical textbook imagery

Louie, Patricia; Wilkes, Rima

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.02.023

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“…One potential way to reduce discrimination against black adolescents with very dark skin tone would be to include more black Americans with darker skin tones in media images. Increased exposure to diverse skin tone imagery has important implications for how we think about particular groups (Louie and Wilkes 2018; Moore 2008). For example, increased exposure to positive messaging about stigmatized groups helps to reduce the stigmatization of these groups (Hu et al 2015).…”

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Revisiting the Cost of Skin Color: Discrimination, Mastery, and Mental Health among Black Adolescents

Louie

2019

Society and Mental Health

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This article investigates the association between skin tone and mental health in a nationally representative sample of black adolescents. The mediating influences of discrimination and mastery in the skin tone–mental health relationship also are considered. Findings indicate that black adolescents with the darkest skin tone have higher levels of depressive symptoms than their lighter skin tone peers. This is not the case for mental disorder. For disorder, a skin tone difference appeared only between black adolescents with very dark skin tone and black adolescents with medium brown skin tone. Discrimination partially mediates the association between skin tone and depression, while mastery fully mediates this association, indicating that the impact of skin tone on depression operates primarily through lower mastery. Similar patterns were observed for disorder. By extending the discussion of skin tone and health to black adolescents and treating skin tone as a set of categories rather than a linear gradient, I provide new insights into the patterning of skin tone and depression/disorder.

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Revisiting the Cost of Skin Color: Discrimination, Mastery, and Mental Health among Black Adolescents

Louie

2019

Society and Mental Health

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“…Although being the minority globally, photographs of white patients dominate medical imagery, with a 2018 study analysing more than 4,000 images in medical textbooks discovering that only 4.5% showed dark skin. 55 Textbooks such as Common skin diseases in Africa 54 and Dermatology 53 are breaking this tradition, with authors ensuring that their images show a broad spectrum of skin tones that represent the wider population.…”

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Black Lives Matter: the impact and lessons for the UK dental profession

Kadiyo

Mellish

2021

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“…In many academic fields, upper-class white men predominate in the textbooks, despite all fields having rich histories including people of color, white women, and other marginalized groups (Apple & Christian-Smith 2017). Diverse individuals tend not to be depicted as scientists (Ceglie & Olivares 2012), LGBTQ* issues are underrepresented in history textbooks and ' othered' in human sexuality texts (Höhne & Heerdegen 2018;Myerson et al 2007), and light-skinned individuals are overrepresented in medical textbooks (Louie & Wilkes 2018). Even when marginalized groups are represented, they tend to be ' othered' or presented in a context where they are seen as a problem (Niehaus 2018).…”

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Who Gets to Wield Academic Mjolnir?: On Worthiness, Knowledge Curation, and Using the Power of the People to Diversify OER

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2020

Journal of Interactive Media in Education

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In many academic fields Western/white/male/cishetero 2 /abled perspectives are often centered, while other perspectives are presented as "other." Implicitly, this sends messages to students that success looks like one type of person, knowledge is generated in one kind of way, and their background is not worth being centered. While open educational resources (OER) are often marketed as a tool for social justice, due to their ability to neutralize class-based differences (e.g., Okamoto 2013), there is no evidence that OER are any better than commercial texts at addressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion (see Mishra 2017 for a discussion of context). However, OER do present a good opportunity for diversification, due to the relatively simple nature of updating the content. This project takes a crowdsourcing approach to diversify OpenStax Psychology (OpenStax College 2014), an OER for Introductory Psychology courses. Contributors were asked to read areas of the textbook they were comfortable with and make suggestions to diversify the content. The author then used some of the suggestions to create modified chapters and conducted a study investigating the impact of the revisions. Participants read either the original chapter or the diversified chapter and completed a questionnaire assessing their sense of belongingness in the classroom/on campus. Overall, first-generation students had a reduced sense of belonging related to their financial circumstances. However, this effect was ameliorated for first-generation students who read the diversified chapter, compared to those who read the original chapter.

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Representations of race and skin tone in medical textbook imagery

Cited by 175 publications

References 32 publications

Revisiting the Cost of Skin Color: Discrimination, Mastery, and Mental Health among Black Adolescents

Revisiting the Cost of Skin Color: Discrimination, Mastery, and Mental Health among Black Adolescents

Black Lives Matter: the impact and lessons for the UK dental profession

Who Gets to Wield Academic Mjolnir?: On Worthiness, Knowledge Curation, and Using the Power of the People to Diversify OER

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