Symbolism In Lorna Roth's A Christmas Carol

In 1970 Claudia was given a white baby doll and was continually only given toys that showed white children. Today’s society does the same thing. Little girls in the digital age are only given images of white girls. This paralyzed act to not represent all children has to do with how the mass producing media was created. Lorna Roth describes the industry with “an apparent lack of awareness of the dominance of Whiteness” by the people that create the photography and visual imagery (Roth 126). Originally when magazines started to be mass-produced and photographers had to develop their work, they would use a Shirley card to look at the colors in the photograph. The Shirley card is a reference card of a very fair female used to look at color when

The only way to change is to no longer act ignorant to the issue (Roth 126). Writer Thomas Foster writes about about how a book becomes a success in How to Read Literature Like a Professor. He compares any successful story to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. He says the story is such a success because Scrooge is representative (Foster 109). Everyone either knows a “Scrooge” or at time catches themselves being a “Scrooge” and they are able to go back to Dickens’ story. Therefore A Christmas Carol is re-read and continually re-make into movies because “Scrooge” is able to representative of everyone. The same thing happens with the media. They have found, or it seems, that either whitewashing or just using white people sells better than not. In the capitalist society, the media almost has no choice but to go with what sells. With that, as a consumer one has a power with their dollar. If a company sees that something is not selling, they use common sense and stop selling it. They should not be using their money to fund the biased beauty standards of our

In the March Vogue issue, model Karlie Kloss was the latest culprit to appropriate culture. Kloss, a white typical all-American girl, was seen as a geisha or a typical female Japanese entertainer in a editorial to ironically boost Japanese diversity. The movie “Ghost in the Shell”, which originated in Japan as an amine and featured an Asian cast was appropriation when it turning into a movie with white actress Scarlett Johansson as the leading role. Even Netflix’s “Death Note” used white actors for the film of the Japanese adaptation. Toni Morrison wrote The Bluest Eye in 1940 but it is still relevant today. The color of Claudia and Pecola skin effected everything they did. It effected their treatment of dolls to their social interactions. The girls had no choice but to confirm to their world that lighter is better, and put themselves down for it. They had no representation and grew up with the notion that lighter is better. Those girls are not the only ones. In this day-in-age women of color are put up to false standards. They are thrown into a whitewashed society where they are unrepresented and are thus given a misshapen view of