{"id":36520,"date":"2011-07-02T10:16:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T15:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=36520"},"modified":"2012-06-11T03:38:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T08:38:19","slug":"the-random-black-girl-with-the-big-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/07\/02\/the-random-black-girl-with-the-big-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Random Black Girl with the Big Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36525\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/1.jpg 539w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/1-500x112.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/reneeyoxon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ren\u00e9e Yoxon<\/a> sent along a performance by Patina Miller singing Random Black Girl. \u00a0It&#8217;s about how new musicals all just so happen to include a soulful, sassy, big-voiced, big-bottomed black girl in the ensemble (I&#8217;m looking at you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/glee\/bios\/amber-riley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Glee<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>My favorite part is at 3:45.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"540\" height=\"390\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PbbewRSc-C0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9e Yoxon sent along a performance by Patina Miller singing Random Black Girl. \u00a0It&#8217;s about how new musicals all just so happen to include a soulful, sassy, big-voiced, big-bottomed black girl in the ensemble (I&#8217;m looking at you, Glee). My favorite part is at 3:45. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College. [&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":[55,778,343,285,1760],"class_list":["post-36520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-intersectionality","tag-tvmovies","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36520","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=36520"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47946,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36520\/revisions\/47946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}