The Color of Sex written by Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins examines “National Geographic magazine as the product of a society deeply permeated with racism as a social practice and with racial understandings as ways of viewing the world” (Collins & Lutz, 1993, 292). National Geographic often portrays a racial hierarchy within its pictures, where black individuals were “portrayed as poor and technologically backward” (Collins & Lutz, 1993, 294) compared to white individuals who were “wealthy and less likely to be poor” (Collins & Lutz, 1993, 294). This racial hierarchy degrades the status of dark-skinned people and keeps with the stereotype of white skin individuals being better than dark-skinned, ‘the other’. Racism is constantly seen