{"id":21929,"date":"2010-03-26T10:23:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=21929"},"modified":"2017-09-16T21:49:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T02:49:49","slug":"plain-ol-and-african-american-brides-and-grooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/26\/plain-ol-and-african-american-brides-and-grooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Plain Ol&#8217; and African American Types of People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elle, at <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/random-realization.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shakesville<\/a>, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;sometimes I am struck by how many times, in so many little ways, people of color are reminded that &#8220;white,&#8221; in terms of race, is presumed to be the default or that white people are presumed not to &#8220;have&#8221; race in the same ways that we are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Skada sent us another great example of this phenomenon: Netflix genres include &#8220;Action and Adventure&#8221; and &#8220;African-American Action&#8221; (&#8220;and Adventure&#8221; would be too many As I guess).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/26\/plain-ol-and-african-american-brides-and-grooms\/capture-106\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22777\" title=\"Capture\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/03\/Capture4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/26\/plain-ol-and-african-american-brides-and-grooms\/netflix\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22778\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22778\" title=\"Netflix\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/03\/Netflix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"456\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For more examples of the neutrality of whiteness and the marked nature of blackness, see our two posts on recent descriptions of beige as &#8220;flesh-colored&#8221; (featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/27\/stunning-example-of-the-neutrality-of-whiteness\/\" target=\"_self\">Michelle Obama<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/02\/fashion-world-still-clueless-about-what-naked-non-white-people-look-like\/\" target=\"_self\">Beyonce et al.<\/a>) and our posts on <a href=\"..\/2008\/08\/03\/white-privilege\/\" target=\"_self\">bandaids and other \u201cflesh-colored\u201d items<\/a> and <a href=\"..\/2008\/08\/06\/for-normal-to-darker-skin\/\" target=\"_self\">lotion for \u201cnormal to darker skin.\u201d<\/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>Elle, at Shakesville, writes: &#8230;sometimes I am struck by how many times, in so many little ways, people of color are reminded that &#8220;white,&#8221; in terms of race, is presumed to be the default or that white people are presumed not to &#8220;have&#8221; race in the same ways that we are. Skada sent us another [&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":[272,285,1760,1757,293],"class_list":["post-21929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marriagefamily","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929","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=21929"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71236,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929\/revisions\/71236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}