{"id":18045,"date":"2009-12-22T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=18045"},"modified":"2014-01-20T01:54:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T06:54:34","slug":"holiday-in-the-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/22\/holiday-in-the-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday in the Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, what do you think:\u00a0 Is this Gap ad featuring Black people dancing and singing about the &#8220;hood&#8221; using stereotypes to appeal to black people?\u00a0 Or white people?\u00a0 In the latter case, would you consider this a form of objectification?\u00a0 (Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t know when or where it aired.)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HNw4amjdV0c&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For more, see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/18\/why-and-how-people-of-color-are-included-in-advertising-first-in-a-series\/\" target=\"_self\">my series of posts about how and why people of color are included in advertising aimed mainly at white people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/thefeministagenda.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/personal-identity-in-consumer-culture_15.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Feminist Agenda<\/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>So, what do you think:\u00a0 Is this Gap ad featuring Black people dancing and singing about the &#8220;hood&#8221; using stereotypes to appeal to black people?\u00a0 Or white people?\u00a0 In the latter case, would you consider this a form of objectification?\u00a0 (Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t know when or where it aired.) For more, see my series of [&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":[279,254,285,1760,341],"class_list":["post-18045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-holidays","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-ruralurban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045","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=18045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61058,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045\/revisions\/61058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}