Vogue Cover

Exclusion: Its hard to really pin exclusion on this because its a magazine cover and there is only two people on it. There is only so much room on a magazine to begin with, and it does not seem like the magazine cover had any intention of including more than the two people on it. However if I had to go deeper into it, you could use exclusion to point out that the black person on the cover is shown as being real aggressive while the fair toned person is so sweet and innocent. You could put the same argument when looking at it from a guy-girl perspective. You could say that its excluding any other representation of the two people. Especially when you compare it to the cover on the left which was surprisingly produced in San Francisco, one of the most progressive places in the US, NOW. That was really the only way I could show exclusion on this piece without sneaking into the stereotype zone. But this will just end up being a perfect transition.

Stereotyping!: Could there be an easier way to analyze this cover? Hey lets get this big black guy and make him look extremely aggressive and extremely similar to this propaganda released in the early 1900's with an aggressive gorilla. To add on top of that, he has this sweet innocent white girl in his arms like hes keeping her away from other people with a lot of similarities to the gorilla running off with.. an innocent little white girl. I do no know if the producer of this magazine cover knew  about this old cover, but even if they did not, the figures that both humans represent is very stereotypical. 

Assimilation: Well I know who these people are but the magazine does no favors in representing who these people are. I mean I know Lebron plays basketball and Gisele is this mega model, but I wouldn't know that if i was just a viewer of the magazine. Its a cover that speaks on being in shape but all I see is a super aggressive Lebron holding a sweet innocent Gisele. The only thing that tells me hes a basketball player is the basketball but still, the figure that he is portraying is an aggressive man with a woman in his arms. Where does that speak to me when it comes to where he or she came from or what he and she does to work out.

Tokenism: I don't know if Tokenism could apply to the cover just because it seemed like the intent was to replicate the propaganda that was used in the early 1900's. I do not see Tokenism being in this because it s a magazine cover for two people with headlines on working out. It was not like they were promoting something about purchasing in the field of fitness with a cover of dozens of people and they just threw Lebron in there because he is black. That is just my perspective on it.

Othering: Not featured

Difference of Ideology: Not Featured

Exoticism: Sorry, I don't think this is featured either.