{"id":21092,"date":"2010-03-04T10:54:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=21092"},"modified":"2013-12-15T03:55:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T08:55:47","slug":"reminder-racist-mascots-are-an-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/04\/reminder-racist-mascots-are-an-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Racist Mascots are an Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn L., who blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/remodelminority.com\/2010\/02\/mascots\/\" target=\"_blank\">Remodel Minority<\/a>, found these and other mascot costumes at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costume-shop.com\/index.php?p=catalog&amp;mode=search&amp;search_in=all&amp;search_str=mascot\" target=\"_blank\">Costume Shop<\/a>.\u00a0 They are, from left to right, the \u201cMexican Costume Mascot\u201d, \u201cMandarin Man Chinese Costume\u201d, \u201cNative American Chief Costume Mascot,\u201d \u201cNative American Indian Costume\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/04\/reminder-racist-mascots-are-an-industry\/mascots\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21093\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"mascots\" alt=\"\" src=\"www.thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/mascots.jpg\" width=\"581\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The costumes start at $887.\u00a0\u00a0 This reminds us that racist mascots are an industry, not just a poor choice.\u00a0 It would be much more difficult to field a team called <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/22\/some-native-american-sports-mascots\/\" target=\"_self\">the Indians<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/15\/go-orientials-go\/\" target=\"_self\">the Gauchos, or the Orientals<\/a>\u00a0if there were no pre-made costumes to buy.<\/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>Carolyn L., who blogs at Remodel Minority, found these and other mascot costumes at Costume Shop.\u00a0 They are, from left to right, the \u201cMexican Costume Mascot\u201d, \u201cMandarin Man Chinese Costume\u201d, \u201cNative American Chief Costume Mascot,\u201d \u201cNative American Indian Costume\u201d: The costumes start at $887.\u00a0\u00a0 This reminds us that racist mascots are an industry, not just [&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":[227,283,285,1758,1759,1754],"class_list":["post-21092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commodification","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-american-indiansaboriginals","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-latinos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21092","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=21092"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60423,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21092\/revisions\/60423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}