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• TITLE: Celebrity Capital of Actresses of Color: A Mixed Methods Study

  AUTHORS: Yulia Medvedeva, Cynthia Frisby, Joseph Moore

  KEYWORDS: Colorism, Field Theory, Racial Capital, Celebrity Capital, Qualitative and Quantitative Content Analysis

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Journalism and Communication, Vol.5 No.3, August 17, 2017

  ABSTRACT: Is colorism in Hollywood a problem? A pilot study was conducted on two actresses, dark-skinned actress Lupita Nyong’o who won Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2014 for her portrayal of a slave Patsey in the 2013 movie “12 Years a Slave,” 2013, and light-skinned actress Halle Berry who won Best Actress Oscar in 2002 for her portrayal of a widow Leticia Musgrove in the 2001 movie “Monster’s Ball.” Data obtained from the mixed-methods design employed in the study found a significant difference in how often an actress’ complexion was used in a news story and how they were described using the language of racial capital. Contrary to expectations set by understanding of the concept of colorism, darker-skinned Nyong’o’s racial capital was stated in the news less prominently than the racial capital of lighter-skinned Berry. Actresses’ celebrity capital and ways of conversion of capital is visualized in Venn diagrams.