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\"Roland<\/a>
Roland (Hoodie Diptych) \u00a9 Wing Young Huie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Changing Lenses project, as a conversation between a photographer and a sociologist, is very much based in the interaction of images and stereotypes, assumptions and visions, contexts and the understandings of those contexts.<\/p>\n

Trayvon Martin was killed in late February 2012, and the case against his shooter, George Zimmerman, continues. So, too, do public reactions to Martin\u2019s death and Zimmerman\u2019s defense. Perhaps no combination of image and stereotype was more prominent or controversial in American culture this past spring than hoodies and race. For a sociological perspective and relevant research on the controversy and media coverage of it, we can recommend Jeff Dowd\u2019s rich post on our TSP Community Page Sociology Lens, \u201cDisembodied Racism and the Search for Racist Intent.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\"#JusticeforTrayvonMartin<\/a>
#JusticeforTrayvonMartin \u00a9 Shantrelle P. Lewis : Adrian Viajero Roman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For our part, our conversations have taken us in two directions. First, informed by interests in sport, race, and politics, Doug Hartmann found himself ruminating on the photo of LeBron James and the Miami Heat posing, heads down as if in silent reflection, in hoodies. The moodily lit image prompted thoughts about social consciousness and the political voice of athletes in America (more on this recently<\/a>), thoughts on Tommie Smith and John Carlos\u2019s Olympic victory stand demonstration back in 1968. Both incidents share the fact that athletes\u2019 may most effectively make political expressions through their bodies and actions\u2014ironically, not<\/em> a point Hartmann got into in his TSP White Paper with Kyle Green, \u201cSport and Politics: Strange, Secret Bedfellows<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Second, Wing Young Huie set out to consider hoodies as one symbol of \u201cotherness\u201d and breaking down stereotype. Since March, he has undertaken a project called \u201cWe Are the Other<\/a>,\u201d which includes the diptych above,\u00a0Roland<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps these two approaches don\u2019t come together, but when you read reactions to both Martin\u2019s death and the case that has unfolded in the media and in the public consciousness, as covered in our TSP Roundtable \u201cThinking about Trayvon: Privileged Response and Media Discourse<\/a>,\u201d more questions than answers will necessarily be raised. In that Roundtable, for instance, sociologist Enid Logan raised the idea that perhaps protestors should have been holding signs reading \u201cI am George Zimmerman,\u201d as it \u201cwould have implied a truer, more honest understanding of the relations of power, privilege, and economic and social violence that contribute to the devaluation of black life.\u201d Or maybe, as fall comes on, we\u2019ll all just raise our hoodies against the cold and take a moment to consider how symbolic this clothing has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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