Cheryl Thompson

Assistant Professor Faculty of Communication and Design School of Creative Industries Toronto, Ontario cheryl.thompson@ryerson.ca Office: (416) 979-5000 ext. 544329

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Black beauty culture Blackface Celebrity culture Critical race Media and advertising Popular culture Promotional culture

Bio/Research

Cheryl Thompson is an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University in the School of Creative Industries. She is author of Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture. She previously held a Banting postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. Dr. Thompson’s essays have appeared in Emergent Feminisms: Challenging a Post-Feminist Media Culture, the Journal of Canadian Studies, Canadian Journal of History Annales canadiennes d'histoire (CJH/ACH), and Feminist Media Studies. She has also published articles in The Conversation, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, Spacing, Herizon’s Magazine, Halifax Coast, and Rabble.ca. She grew up in Scarborough, and currently resides in Toronto.

Dr. Thompson's most recent work has appeared in the New York Times

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Media Appearances

New York Times, October 23 2019, Trudeau Survived. Now Stop Pretending Canada Is a Diverse Paradise

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Media Relations

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