{"id":15126,"date":"2009-11-17T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=15126"},"modified":"2017-09-16T19:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T00:04:23","slug":"the-single-story-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/17\/the-single-story-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Single Story&#8221; of &#8220;Africa&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this 20 minute video, novelist Chimamanda Adichie describes, with insight and grace, the problem of the &#8220;single story.&#8221;\u00a0 She says, &#8220;Show a people as one thing, and only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.&#8221;\u00a0 Focusing on her experience as an &#8220;African&#8221; in the U.S. (she is from Nigeria), she also describes her own experiences with realizing that she has heard only a single story, whether of rural Nigerians or Mexicans.<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommended (or read the transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/restructure.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/29\/people-of-colour-are-not-a-story-of-suffering-or-resistance\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/lang\/en\/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story\" width=\"854px\" height=\"480px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/homogenize-people-from-over-fifty.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stuff White People Do<\/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<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 20 minute video, novelist Chimamanda Adichie describes, with insight and grace, the problem of the &#8220;single story.&#8221;\u00a0 She says, &#8220;Show a people as one thing, and only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.&#8221;\u00a0 Focusing on her experience as an &#8220;African&#8221; in the U.S. (she is from Nigeria), [&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":[23384,64,285,1760,1754,1757,293],"class_list":["post-15126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-globalization","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126","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=15126"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71162,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126\/revisions\/71162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}