{"id":1851,"date":"2008-07-15T04:42:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T09:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2010-11-24T00:11:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T05:11:29","slug":"interracial-dating-as-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/07\/15\/interracial-dating-as-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Interracial Dating as Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have posted previously on the exoticization of the Other through tourism (see especially this post on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/20\/the-dancing-hawaiian-girl-at-your-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">hula girls in Hawaii<\/a>).\u00a0 This is part of an exoticization of the Other that occurs within state borders as well as across.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.miami.edu\/ep\/contemporaryed\/Bell_Hooks\/bell_hooks.html\" target=\"_blank\">bell hooks<\/a> talks about about how some white people see having sex with a person of color as an exciting adventure, like a\u00a0trip to an exotic location,\u00a0in her essay &#8220;Eating the Other.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Race-Ethnicity-Sexuality-Intersections-Forbidden\/dp\/0195127471\/ref=ed_oe_p\" target=\"_blank\">Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality<\/a> by Joane Nagel and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Sexual-Politics-African-Americans\/dp\/0415930995\" target=\"_blank\">Black Sexual Politics<\/a>\u00a0by Patricia Hill Collins.\u00a0 You can see visual representations of it <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/09\/10\/race-and-sexuality\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/01\/26\/the-fetishization-of-black-womens-behinds\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob G. sent us this amazing ad suggesting that dating a person of another race is like going to an exotic location.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>he wanted to show me exotic places.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1852\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/race-exotification-of-the-other.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"558\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Um. Wow.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>NEW!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> From <a href=\"http:\/\/postsecret.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/sunday-secrets_18.html\" target=\"_blank\">Postsecret<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/01\/learned.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5967\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/01\/learned.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have posted previously on the exoticization of the Other through tourism (see especially this post on hula girls in Hawaii).\u00a0 This is part of an exoticization of the Other that occurs within state borders as well as across.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bell hooks talks about about how some white people see having sex with a person of color [&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":[279,285,307],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-raceethnicity","tag-traveltourism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","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=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5968,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions\/5968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}