{"id":34315,"date":"2012-02-28T11:34:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T16:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34315"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:52:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:52:13","slug":"black-people-let-your-new-life-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/28\/black-people-let-your-new-life-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Black People: &#8220;Let Your New Life Begin&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Occidental College colleague, <a href=\"http:\/\/femmepolitical.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">politics professor Caroline Heldman<\/a>, snapped this photograph of a billboard on an L.A. freeway. \u00a0It suggests that one may celebrate Black History Month by calling 1-800-GET-THIN. \u00a0The billboard is another stunning example of the trivialization of black history by companies using it only as an excuse to market their product or service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/IMG00109-20110307-0909.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34316\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/IMG00109-20110307-0909.jpg\" width=\"535\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/IMG00109-20110307-0909.jpg 771w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/IMG00109-20110307-0909-500x284.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><\/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>My Occidental College colleague, politics professor Caroline Heldman, snapped this photograph of a billboard on an L.A. freeway. \u00a0It suggests that one may celebrate Black History Month by calling 1-800-GET-THIN. \u00a0The billboard is another stunning example of the trivialization of black history by companies using it only as an excuse to market their product or [&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":[227,254,23703,285,1760],"class_list":["post-34315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commodification","tag-holidays","tag-marketing","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34315","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=34315"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58463,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34315\/revisions\/58463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}