{"id":34099,"date":"2012-02-28T11:59:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T16:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34099"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:52:07","slug":"from-our-archives-black-history-month-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/28\/from-our-archives-black-history-month-3\/","title":{"rendered":"From Our Archives: Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/127.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33961\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/127.jpg\" width=\"527\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/127.jpg 527w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/127-500x125.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn this second-to-last day of Black History Month, let us return to posts past.<\/p>\n<p>We have been urged to celebrate Black History Month&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/10\/the-paradox-of-black-history-month\/\" target=\"_self\">&#8230;with fried chicken and collard greens<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/17\/frying-chicken-and-collard-greens-headline-black-history-month-themed-flier\/\" target=\"_self\">No really, with fried chicken and collard greens<\/a>! (pictured)<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;by <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/02\/celebrate-black-history-month-by-relaxing-your-hair\/\" target=\"_self\">relaxing our hair<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/09\/black-history-month-kool-aid-sale\/\">drinking kool-aid<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/07\/happy-late-black-history-month-faux-pas\/\">&#8230;by conflating them with &#8220;underprivileged&#8221; people<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/28\/the-compton-cookout-racism-resistance-and-backlash\/\" target=\"_self\">&#8230;with a &#8220;Compton Cookout&#8221; complete with blackface and nooses<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/25\/black-history-month-about-skin-deep\/\" target=\"_self\">&#8230;by buying stuff from companies that do nothing but acknowledge Black History Month<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&lt;sarcasm&gt; Good times. &lt;\/sarcasm&gt;<\/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>On this second-to-last day of Black History Month, let us return to posts past. We have been urged to celebrate Black History Month&#8230; &#8230;with fried chicken and collard greens. No really, with fried chicken and collard greens! (pictured) &#8230;by relaxing our hair\u00a0and drinking kool-aid. &#8230;by conflating them with &#8220;underprivileged&#8221; people. &#8230;with a &#8220;Compton Cookout&#8221; complete [&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":[254],"class_list":["post-34099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34099","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=34099"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58460,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34099\/revisions\/58460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}