Image Restoration Theory (IRT) examines the strategies that people, especially public figures, and organizations use when they face image and reputational threats. Past scholarship has not fully accounted for the impact of identity on an individual or group’s ability to invoke image repair strategies. We examine the 2022 Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson through an intersectional lens to spotlight the constraints that minoritized populations, generally, and Black women, specifically, encounter when responding to reputational threats. Given the legacies of patriarchy and whiteness that operate in the West, Black women often lack the standing in the eyes of the public to defend themselves against attacks and accusations, an experience we describe as nonpersonhood. This point suggests that image repair strategies are not neutral, but embedded within socio-political and historical contexts. Via our analysis, we introduce Marginalized Image Navigation and Expression (MINE) principles as a conceptual framework that is useful for understanding the nuanced ways that images are navigated, negotiated, and expressed, especially for marginalized persons. Finally, we examine the implications of our arguments in the context of reputational threats against minoritized people and organizations.

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通过 Ketanji Brown Jackson 法官的确认听证会介绍边缘化图像导航和表达 (MINE) 原则

形象修复理论（IRT）研究人们，尤其是公众人物和组织在面临形象和声誉威胁时所使用的策略。过去的学术研究并未充分考虑身份对个人或群体调用图像修复策略的能力的影响。我们通过交叉视角审视 2022 年最高法院法官 Ketanji Brown Jackson 的确认听证会，以重点关注少数群体（特别是黑人女性）在应对声誉威胁时遇到的限制。鉴于西方父权制和白人的遗产，黑人女性在公众眼中往往缺乏地位来保护自己免受攻击和指控，我们将这种经历称为非人格。这一点表明图像修复策略不是中立的，而是嵌入到社会政治和历史背景中的。通过我们的分析，我们引入边缘化图像导航和表达（MINE）原则作为概念框架，有助于理解图像导航、协商和表达的微妙方式，特别是对于边缘化人群。最后，我们在少数群体和组织的声誉受到威胁的背景下研究了我们的论点的含义。