{"id":13642,"date":"2009-11-01T16:04:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13642"},"modified":"2009-11-02T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T18:36:08","slug":"sociological-images-update-oct-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/01\/sociological-images-update-oct-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociological Images Update (Oct. 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lisa was invited to co-host a Racialicious<\/a> Podcast this week with Tami Winfrey Harris and Minh-ha Pham<\/a>.\u00a0 If you’re interested, you can listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also, in case you’re new to SocImages, you’re welcome to friend us on Facebook<\/a> or follow us on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FROM THE ARCHIVES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sociologists use the term “racialization” to describe the process by which something that isn’t associated with any racial group, becomes newly associated.\u00a0 In October of 2007, we offered the pit bull as an example of racialization<\/a>.\u00a0 Also features Weird Al Yankovic.<\/p>\n

People often use the Gay Republicans as an example of a social organization that brings together two ideas that seem to be at odds.\u00a0 Another example, detailed in a post in October of 2008,\u00a0 is the pro-environment\/anti-immigrant movement<\/a> (protecting the environment means restricting immigration).\u00a0 The post features a couple really interesting ads.<\/p>\n

Also, haven’t had enough Halloween yet?\u00a0 Here are our Halloween posts from previous years:<\/p>\n

Two extra-special costumes (the Anna Rexia costume<\/a> and the Sexy Scholar<\/a>), Max Weber jack o\u2019lantern<\/a> (by yours truly), Obama mask sold as terrorist mask<\/a>, a Sarah Palin effigy<\/a>, handling sex offenders on trick-o\u2019-treat day<\/a>, and costume catalog analyses (here<\/a> and here<\/a>). \u00a0\u00a0 See also, if you like,\u00a0my Huffington Post<\/a> about the race, class, and gender politics of Halloween.<\/p>\n

NEWLY ENRICHED POSTS <\/strong>(Look for what’s <\/strong>NEW! Oct ’09<\/strong>)<\/span><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Downright Offensive<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s been a long time since we linked to our post featuring pictures from racial- and ethnic-themed college parties, but we found another example (this time Auburn University in 2001).\u00a0 In this one, college students dress up in Blackface and like Klan members<\/a>.\u00a0 Delightful.
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We added another example of a urinal shaped like a woman’s mouth, sent in my Liz B.,\u00a0to our collection of\u00a0urinals and sinks meant to look like women’s body parts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

L. sent us a Facebook teaser for the movie DeadGirl (a movie about the rape and torture of a zombie woman) that describes the movie as “hot.”\u00a0 We added it to our DeadGirl post (NSFW, Triggering)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like fashion shoots that present female models as dead bodies? We added more to our post of Lanvin ads that show women looking dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We added another example of ads featuring bound Asian women<\/a>, sent in by Penny R.<\/p>\n

Katie let us know about El Emigrante, a video game where the player is a bike-riding immigrant trying to avoid the police. We added it to our post about Border Patrol<\/a>, a game where you try to shoot immigrants crossing into the U.S., including a pregnant woman.<\/p>\n

War and Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n

A World War I British recruitment poster that portrayed the British Empire as a team working together reminded us of our post about re-imagining the U.S. military<\/a>, so we added it.<\/p>\n

Class<\/strong><\/p>\n

Steve, my private plane friend, send me some more pictures of the luxury of private aviation<\/a>.\u00a0 A free, personal cinema, in this case.<\/p>\n

Gender<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amanda C. sent us another example of an instance in which “sex” is conflated with women<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We updated our post comparing beauty pageant standards<\/a> to standards for judging livestock with a photo taken by Steve P. outside a skincare store, in which a woman’s face is sliced up into parts to apparently help you pick the correct product for each section.<\/p>\n

Our post on gendering and sexualizing foods<\/a> has new additions: sexy fish sticks! And a Vegas restaurant appropriating feminist imagery from the 1960s.<\/p>\n

We also updated our post about the controversy surrounding Jennifer Love Hewitt’s weight<\/a> last summer with images of her in Self<\/em> magazine showing her new, much slimmer body.<\/p>\n

We also updated a post about a website that helps men find their “Ukrainian Beauty”<\/a> with an image from a protest in Ukraine about sex tourism…that features scantily-clad young women.<\/p>\n

Tawny T. sent us a video from Sweden about how heteronormativity affects gays, lesbians, and straight people. We added to our post on an Argentinian bank’s commercial that portrays transgender individuals positively<\/a> and a Progressive insurance ad that may be portraying a gay couple, since the reason those two ads are so surprising is that we rarely see ones like them.<\/p>\n

Rachael H. told us about Maxim’s guides to how men and women argue (Women are crazy! Men put up with their crap so they can have sex!) and we added it to our post of a video showing a range of “men are like this, women are like that!” stereotypes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Will there ever be a month where we don’t add more examples to our post on pointlessly gendered products<\/a>?\u00a0 Maybe not. This month we added gendered tips for choosing a mattress, gendered versions of Windows XP customization software, gendered epsom salts,gendered snuggies, and gendered Target gift cards.\u00a0 Submitted by Shannon C., Em, Ondi, and Dmitiry T.M.<\/p>\n

Race\/Ethnicity<\/strong><\/p>\n

We added images from a photo shoot in a Romanian magazine to our post showing people in poor parts of the world posed as props<\/a> next to expensive fashions or White models.<\/p>\n

Speaking of using the “Other” as a prop.\u00a0 Shakira has been using a set of undifferentiated Asian drummers in her recent performances.\u00a0 We added it to a previous post on this theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To my first post in a series about how\u00a0people of color are used in advertising aimed (mainly) at white people<\/a>, I added an example of a black woman being used to represent “rhythm.”<\/p>\n

Jackie and Jasmine alerted us to another example of doctored diversity<\/a>, this one from the University of Texas, Arlington.<\/p>\n

Race and Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

We added an image from Mother Jones depicting Newt Gingrich as a “guru” figure to our guest post on the National Review “wise Latina” cover<\/a> of Sotomayor and other uses of Asian\/Buddhist caricatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEWS: Lisa was invited to co-host a Racialicious Podcast this week with Tami Winfrey Harris and Minh-ha Pham.\u00a0 If you’re interested, you can listen here. Also, in case you’re new to SocImages, you’re welcome to friend us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. FROM THE ARCHIVES: Sociologists use the term “racialization” to describe the […]<\/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":[208],"class_list":["post-13642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642","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=13642"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15156,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642\/revisions\/15156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}