{"id":18978,"date":"2010-01-17T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T15:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=18978"},"modified":"2013-12-15T04:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:28:00","slug":"tourism-and-the-objectification-of-the-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/01\/17\/tourism-and-the-objectification-of-the-native\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism and the Objectification of the Native"},"content":{"rendered":"

We often talk about gender objectification on this blog, but we also try to talk about other types of objectification.\u00a0 In this case, Literanista<\/a> sent us a great example of racial\/nationalist objectification.\u00a0 The example comes from a tourism website<\/a> for travelers to the Dominican Republic.\u00a0 It offers, in one of its excursions, the chance to swim in a jungle river, enjoy a secluded beach, visit a “Rum Shack,” taste fresh sugarcane, see native animals and meet an honest-to-goodness-real-Dominican family.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nElsewhere, just to add some negative stereotyping, the website suggests that Dominican’s are drunk all the time:
\n\"\"<\/a>In a similar vein, Karole F. sent in a photograph of some “African” carvings for sale a Stones ‘n Stuff in Exeter, New Hampshire.\u00a0 Human beings are included as objectified tokens alongside animals:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nFor more tourism-related objectification, see our posts on tourism in Hawaii<\/a>, Brazil<\/a>, and Thailand<\/a>, and, related, these images of international adoption<\/a> and onesies for internationally adopted babies<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We often talk about gender objectification on this blog, but we also try to talk about other types of objectification.\u00a0 In this case, Literanista sent us a great example of racial\/nationalist objectification.\u00a0 The example comes from a tourism website for travelers to the Dominican Republic.\u00a0 It offers, in one of its excursions, the chance to […]<\/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":[279,3845,212,285,1760,1754],"class_list":["post-18978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-nation-dominican-republic","tag-alcohol","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978","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=18978"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60545,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions\/60545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}