{"id":1157,"date":"2017-10-17T18:56:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T23:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2017-10-17T18:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T23:57:11","slug":"advertisements-for-african-american-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2017\/10\/17\/advertisements-for-african-american-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertisements for African American Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/08\/business\/dove-ad-racist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advertisement for Dove body wash was recently deemed racially insensitive<\/a> for its portrayal of a Black woman who removes her brown shirt to reveal a White woman wearing a tan shirt. There is a long history of advertisers being insensitive to African American consumers&#8230;when they paid attention to that segment of the market at all. The <em>Pacific Standard<\/em> article <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/news\/you-done-bad-dove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;A Brief History of Companies Courting African-American Dollars&#8221;<\/a> provides an analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An advertisement for Dove body wash was recently deemed racially insensitive for its portrayal of a Black woman who removes her brown shirt to reveal a White woman wearing a tan shirt. There is a long history of advertisers being insensitive to African American consumers&#8230;when they paid attention to that segment of the market at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22214,14,22242],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-media-culture","tag-race","tag-racial-consciousness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}