{"id":33298,"date":"2011-02-14T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=33298"},"modified":"2014-02-10T14:56:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:56:34","slug":"more-vintage-valentine-cards-with-racial-caricatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/14\/more-vintage-valentine-cards-with-racial-caricatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist Vintage Valentine&#8217;s Day Cards: Asians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We previously posted a series of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/12\/vintage-valentines-punning-on-american-indians\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valentine&#8217;s Day cards featuring Native Americans<\/a>. They aren&#8217;t the only racial group to be caricatured in cards, though. Carrie S. sent in this vintage Valentine, found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeydevilla.com\/2008\/02\/14\/me-love-you-long-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century<\/a>, that presents a stereotyped Asian character (doing laundry even!), complete with mangled English:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/likee_you_much_plenty.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33299 aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/likee_you_much_plenty.jpg\" width=\"485\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/likee_you_much_plenty.jpg 485w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/likee_you_much_plenty-440x500.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was able to locate more Asian-themed racist vintage Valentine&#8217;s Day cards at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/leonoraepstein\/15-unbelievably-racist-antique-valentines-day-car\" target=\"_blank\">Buzzfeed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/2-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"2 (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/2-2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/1-4.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-61419\" alt=\"1 (4)\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/1-4-500x375.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/1-4-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/1-4.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/2-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em>Gwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We previously posted a series of\u00a0Valentine&#8217;s Day cards featuring Native Americans. They aren&#8217;t the only racial group to be caricatured in cards, though. Carrie S. sent in this vintage Valentine, found at Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century, that presents a stereotyped Asian character (doing laundry even!), complete with mangled English: I was [&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":[254,283,285,1759,20063,23705],"class_list":["post-33298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33298","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=33298"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61422,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33298\/revisions\/61422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}