Women of color are stereotyped as more sexual than white women.
This billboard draws on the stereotype that Latinas are always hot and spicy:
NEW: These three ads, sent in by Elizabeth A., are for Rio Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas (images found here). The “card” representing passion just-so-happens to include a woman of color in a red dress with fire.
This is a motel/tourist trap/amusement park in South Carolina called Pedroland that is based on the stereotype of the dumb, lazy Mexican.
Here’s the link. This is what it says on the front page:
BUENS DIAS, AMIGO! pedro VER’ GLAD YOU COME!!
pedro got 112 meelion amigos, who stay weeth heem, opp teel now all satisfy come back, send frans…thees make pedro ver’ HAPPEE…like for frans come back all time…pedro hope YOU make 112 meelion and wan happee amigos! you come back soon, too, yes?
These two pictures were in the same slide show released by AP and picked up all over the mass media. After instant outrage from various quarters, they were taken down… but some of us got copies before they were able to erase history. Here are the pictures with their original captions, note that the white couple “find[s]” and the black individual “loot[s].”
Caption: Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery.
Caption: A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans.
This image was passed along by a colleague’s student.
