{"id":23721,"date":"2010-05-24T10:50:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=23721"},"modified":"2013-12-15T02:57:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T07:57:09","slug":"the-flip-side-of-racial-profiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/24\/the-flip-side-of-racial-profiling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flip Side of Racial Profiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heather J. sent along a nice illustration of white privilege, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postsecret.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PostSecret<\/a>.\u00a0 PostSecret features anonymous confessions on postcards and, in this confession, a person confesses that being white and female facilitates her shoplifting: <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/24\/the-flip-side-of-racial-profiling\/vortex\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23722\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23722\" title=\"vortex\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/vortex.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/vortex.jpg 560w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/vortex-500x345.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a>The card is a great example of the flip side of racial profiling:\u00a0those who do not carry the stigmatized features aren&#8217;t simply treated fairly, they&#8217;re given a benefit of the doubt that allows them to get away with the very thing that others are suspected of doing.<\/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>Heather J. sent along a nice illustration of white privilege, courtesy of PostSecret.\u00a0 PostSecret features anonymous confessions on postcards and, in this confession, a person confesses that being white and female facilitates her shoplifting: The card is a great example of the flip side of racial profiling:\u00a0those who do not carry the stigmatized features aren&#8217;t [&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":[2056,55,285,1757],"class_list":["post-23721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-gender","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721","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=23721"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60196,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721\/revisions\/60196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}