Racism and Classism in Mexican Advertising: an Exhibition of Visual Messaging

Jones, C.W. 2019. Racism and Classism in Mexican Advertising: an Exhibition of Visual Messaging. in: Olteanu, A., Stables, A. and Borţun, D. (ed.) Meanings & Co.: the Interdisciplinarity of Communication, Semiotics and Multimodality Springer. pp. 213-266

Chapter titleRacism and Classism in Mexican Advertising: an Exhibition of Visual Messaging
AuthorsJones, C.W.
EditorsOlteanu, A., Stables, A. and Borţun, D.
Abstract

This paper explores how Mexico’s population has been faced with the polemics of class and race. This division continues today through the Mexican ruling class’s appropriation of advertising. I am interested in the functions and systems in place that allow this to propagate and how meaning is being reproduced unperceived by the audience. My thesis question asks, What are the visual representations of the power relationships in Mexico’s political economy as reflected through the appropriation of advertising? To answer this question, I perform a semiotic analysis of branded advertising messages created by the companies Bimbo, Palacio de Hierro and FEMSA, owned by the Mexican ruling families Servitje, Baillares and Garza respectively. Each television commercial is examined for signs, cultural codes, gestures, gaze and word tracks. These signs are decoded, and the conclusion is expressed through “An Exhibition of Visual Messaging”, designed to inform the Mexican public of how messages are constructed and received, empowering the viewer to interpret and challenge the meaning behind the communications they are receiving through the metamedia.

Book titleMeanings & Co.: the Interdisciplinarity of Communication, Semiotics and Multimodality
Page range213-266
Year2019
PublisherSpringer
Publication dates
Published2019
ISBN9783319919850
9783319919867
ISSN2510-442X
2510-4438
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91986-7_13
Web address (URL)http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91986-7
JournalNumanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress

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