{"id":24449,"date":"2010-06-19T10:03:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24449"},"modified":"2013-12-05T05:20:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:20:46","slug":"tom-tierneys-whitewashed-american-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/19\/tom-tierneys-whitewashed-american-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Tierney’s Whitewashed American Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Tierney is a famous paper doll artist.\u00a0 Katrin sent along a link to his American Family series<\/a>.\u00a0 The covers erase all non-white families; apparently American Indian families weren’t “American” enough, nor were the indigenous population of what-would-one-day-be-California, African families during the Civil War era, or the many other non-white people that lived here before and after white people arrived.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere on his site, Tierney has paper dolls with non-white characters, but they are always specified (e.g., Famous African Americans Paper Dolls<\/a> or the new Obama Family<\/a>).\u00a0 Non-modified, though, “American”= white.<\/p>\n

See also our post on how people tried to claim American-ness by claiming whiteness<\/a> and suing for whiteness<\/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":"

Tom Tierney is a famous paper doll artist.\u00a0 Katrin sent along a link to his American Family series.\u00a0 The covers erase all non-white families; apparently American Indian families weren’t “American” enough, nor were the indigenous population of what-would-one-day-be-California, African families during the Civil War era, or the many other non-white people that lived here before […]<\/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":[8070,3920,285,1757],"class_list":["post-24449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artliterature","tag-nation-united-states","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24449","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=24449"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60011,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24449\/revisions\/60011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}