How the Photography Industry’s Racial Bias Left Those With Darker Skin in the Shadows (Quite Literally)

Keya Shirali
3 min readFeb 10, 2021
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In “Gender and Early Telephone Culture”, Michèle Martin cites a source stating that telephone-company managers believed “women’s use of men’s technology would come to no good end (1988, p. 23). This misconception is perhaps even more ill advised when considering a racialized view of gender in the context of the…

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Keya Shirali

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