(Missed) Representation

The theory of symbolic annihilation describes that the absence of representation or underrepresentation of some groups of people usually on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic status and gender is used to maintain social inequality.

Representation is the way in which people organise the world and reality. So essentially, representation is a way of standing for, or in the place of something else.

In the converse, lack of representation is essentially a removal of visible minorities in popular media, with erasure. One might say it is a subtle brainwash. A way of convincing the excluded population of their insignificance.

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