{"id":1734,"date":"2008-07-04T04:22:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2017-09-30T00:12:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T05:12:16","slug":"african-people-as-props-for-white-femininity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/07\/04\/african-people-as-props-for-white-femininity\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Africans&#8221; as Props for White Femininity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The image below is from the latest episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingtv.co.uk\/shows\/bntm4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britain&#8217;s Next Top Model<\/a>\u00a0(image found <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/ohnotheydidnt\/25297638.html?page=1#comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>).\u00a0 I would comment, except I just recently wrote almost exactly what I would write for this post <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/26\/representing-africa\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 You might also want to look <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/25\/de-racializing-the-modernitytradition-binary\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/16\/icelandic-obamahillary-ad-obama-as-savage-cannibal\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/11\/resident-evil-5-africa-is-the-dark-continent\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> and also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/18\/whites-blacks-apes-in-the-great-chain-of-being\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> for historical context.<\/p>\n<p>Dude, we are so not making this stuff up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/race-britains-next-top-model-africans-as-props-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1731 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/race-britains-next-top-model-africans-as-props-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"538\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to an anonymous tipster in our comments!\u00a0\u00a0Don&#8217;t forget you can always email us tips at <a href=\"mailto:socimages@thesocietypages.org\">socimages@thesocietypages.org<\/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>The image below is from the latest episode of Britain&#8217;s Next Top Model\u00a0(image found here).\u00a0 I would comment, except I just recently wrote almost exactly what I would write for this post here.\u00a0 You might also want to look here\u00a0and here and here and also\u00a0here for historical context. Dude, we are so not making this [&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":[701,1811,1801,285,1760,1757],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-modernprimitive","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-nation-south-africa","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","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=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71902,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/71902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}