{"id":14525,"date":"2009-10-31T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14525"},"modified":"2012-10-14T01:45:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T06:45:33","slug":"further-othering-of-undocumented-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/31\/further-othering-of-undocumented-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Othering of Undocumented Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several stores, including Target, Walgreens, and Amazon.com, offered an &#8220;Illegal Alien&#8221; costume for sale.\u00a0 The costume, which includes a orange (prison?) jumpsuit, a green card, and a space alien mask, conflates undocumented immigrants with aliens from outer space.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14528\" title=\"alientarget\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/alientarget.jpg\" alt=\"alientarget\" width=\"481\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a round of criticism, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/chi-091019costume-controversy,0,4640668.story\" target=\"_blank\">Target pulled its &#8220;Illegal Alien&#8221; costume<\/a> from its shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/loteriachicana.net\/2009\/10\/16\/corporate-hypocrisy\" target=\"_blank\">Loter\u00eda Chicana<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/resistracism.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/19\/the-halloween-fun\/\" target=\"_blank\">Resist Racism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several stores, including Target, Walgreens, and Amazon.com, offered an &#8220;Illegal Alien&#8221; costume for sale.\u00a0 The costume, which includes a orange (prison?) jumpsuit, a green card, and a space alien mask, conflates undocumented immigrants with aliens from outer space. After a round of criticism, Target pulled its &#8220;Illegal Alien&#8221; costume from its shelves. Hat tip to [&hellip;]<\/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":[254,2125,283,285],"class_list":["post-14525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-immigrationcitizenship","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525","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=14525"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51730,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525\/revisions\/51730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}