{"id":10973,"date":"2009-07-19T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=10973"},"modified":"2011-01-10T03:50:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:50:48","slug":"race-class-and-skin-color-in-the-movie-precious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/07\/19\/race-class-and-skin-color-in-the-movie-precious\/","title":{"rendered":"Race, Class, and Skin Color in the Movie “Precious”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nElizabeth H. sent in the trailer for the movie Precious (based on the novel Push<\/em>), which should be released later this year:<\/p>\n

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As Elizabeth says,<\/p>\n

It seems to reinforce…negative associations [of] underclass or working class African-Americans: poor education, single motherhood, teenage pregnancy, abuse, child obesity, etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The trailer brings up some interesting issues about skin color as well. Precious’s desire for a light-skinned boyfriend highlights the emphasis placed on skin color as a measure of attractiveness: a light-skinned boyfriend would indicate her own success in the world, just as fame and wealth would. Elizabeth points out that all the “good” adult characters are light-skinned (and thin) as well.<\/p>\n

Also see our posts on kids’ perceptions of skin color and attractiveness<\/a>, an ad for skin lightener<\/a>, a club letting light-skinned girls in for free<\/a>, Malaysian anti-racism parody of skin lightening cream ad<\/a>, and an ad that shows darker skin as more exciting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth H. sent in the trailer for the movie Precious (based on the novel Push), which should be released later this year: As Elizabeth says, It seems to reinforce…negative associations [of] underclass or working class African-Americans: poor education, single motherhood, teenage pregnancy, abuse, child obesity, etc. The trailer brings up some interesting issues about skin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,29,2089,343,283,285,1760],"class_list":["post-10973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-class","tag-gender-beauty","tag-tvmovies","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10973"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32332,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973\/revisions\/32332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}