{"id":24290,"date":"2010-05-31T12:07:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T17:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24290"},"modified":"2012-01-24T02:35:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T07:35:40","slug":"what-color-is-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/31\/what-color-is-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"What Color Is &#8220;Skin&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica L. sent in an example that simply and clearly illustrates the way that lighter skin tones that come closest to matching White skin are given the status of neutral, &#8220;regular,&#8221; unmarked skin. She was shopping for a sports bra and noticed that the colors included white, black, and a beige color, which instead of being called beige or <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">tan<\/span> or something of that sort is called &#8220;skin&#8221; (reader May points out that &#8220;tan&#8221; is used to refer to skin color as well):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-24291\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/31\/what-color-is-skin\/1-93\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24291 aligncenter\" title=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/1-499x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/1-499x367.png 499w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/1.png 873w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For other examples, see our post on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/02\/fashion-world-still-clueless-about-what-naked-non-white-people-look-like\/\">&#8220;flesh&#8221;-colored clothing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica L. sent in an example that simply and clearly illustrates the way that lighter skin tones that come closest to matching White skin are given the status of neutral, &#8220;regular,&#8221; unmarked skin. She was shopping for a sports bra and noticed that the colors included white, black, and a beige color, which instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,373,285,1757],"class_list":["post-24290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-color","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24290","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24290"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44494,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24290\/revisions\/44494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}