{"id":11181,"date":"2009-07-24T12:10:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T17:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=11181"},"modified":"2012-10-19T01:33:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T06:33:20","slug":"making-race-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/07\/24\/making-race-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Race Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Yoon is running for mayor of Boston. Yoon is Korean<\/span> Korean-American. It only makes sense, then (*sarcasm*), that the Boston Phoenix<\/em><\/a> illustrated a story about his race against incumbent Mayor Tom Menino with the follow picture:<\/p>\n

\"YoonArticlePicture\"<\/p>\n

Screen shot for context and posterity:<\/p>\n

\"Capture\"<\/p>\n

Race is made to matter. Sotomayor can’t just<\/a> be a judge<\/a>, Gates can’t just be a suspect<\/a>, and Yoon can’t just be a candidate. If you are not white, then your race will likely be used to denigrate you, make fun of you, or question your competence and entitlements. This may not happen all the time, but it will happen often enough.<\/p>\n

Via Resist Racism<\/a> and Slant Eye for the Round Eye<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam Yoon is running for mayor of Boston. Yoon is Korean Korean-American. It only makes sense, then (*sarcasm*), that the Boston Phoenix illustrated a story about his race against incumbent Mayor Tom Menino with the follow picture: Screen shot for context and posterity: Race is made to matter. Sotomayor can’t just be a judge, Gates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,85,285,1759],"class_list":["post-11181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11181"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51989,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181\/revisions\/51989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}