{"id":995,"date":"2016-12-22T16:23:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T21:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=995"},"modified":"2016-12-22T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T21:26:52","slug":"race-in-the-star-wars-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2016\/12\/22\/race-in-the-star-wars-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Race in the Star Wars Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since seeing the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076759\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Star Wars<\/em> movie<\/a> in the summer of 1977 I have been a <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2015\/12\/23\/star-wars-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\">huge fan of the series<\/a>, and it launched my love of science fiction in general. The first six movies&#8217; depiction of people of color\u00a0have not always been the best &#8212; Jar Jar Binks, anyone? &#8212; but a <em>Star Wars<\/em> scholar thinks that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2488496\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens<\/em><\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3748528\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Rogue One: A Star Wars Story<\/em><\/a> have improved the track record. I haven&#8217;t seen the newly released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3748528\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rogue One<\/em><\/a> yet, but will definitely check it out over the holiday break!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since seeing the first Star Wars movie in the summer of 1977 I have been a huge fan of the series, and it launched my love of science fiction in general. The first six movies&#8217; depiction of people of color\u00a0have not always been the best &#8212; Jar Jar Binks, anyone? &#8212; but a Star [&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":[14,22242],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-race","tag-racial-consciousness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}