Railton (2011) Music Video and the Politics of Representation, touches on many areas within popular culture, feminism and ethnicity within her text. Through which many case studies of current day music videos are dissected and discourse is provided around the central themes. Chapter 4 focuses on the black and white representation in music video. In particular Christina Aguilera’s video for ‘Can’t Hold us Down’ shows the depiction of contrastive elements between white and black bodies, which in essence date back hundreds of years to the original perceptions of women’s curvature and religious notions of purity.
A notable video I found which is a champion of true afrocentricity and representation of the human form was Don’t Touch My Hair – Solange. Although there is no direct contrastive element physically represented through individuals ethnicity, strong messages are portrayed through the adherence of timely stylistic decisions, movement and dancing.