{"id":3693,"date":"2008-10-26T23:18:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T04:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2010-11-24T02:32:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T07:32:52","slug":"comparing-racial-mimickry-in-1909-and-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/10\/26\/comparing-racial-mimickry-in-1909-and-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Racial Mimickry in 1909 and 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These images capture the Columbia University class of 1909 posing as &#8220;Zulu Savages&#8221; (found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/library_of_congress\/2786279963\/in\/set-72157603624867509\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0thanks to Penny R.)\u00a0 We may not be so surprised to see such mimickry of blacks in 1909, but I think that when compared to these <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/11\/08\/individual-racism-alive-and-well\/\" target=\"_self\">pictures of college students at race-themed parties in 2007<\/a>, it might make for some interesting discussion of humor, mimickry, racism, and the notion of progress&#8230; especially as Halloween approaches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/10\/2787136484_9e4eb4b15f.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3696  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/10\/2787136484_9e4eb4b15f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/10\/2786280191_1b87115063.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3695\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/10\/2786280191_1b87115063.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/10\/2786279963_f555014a3a.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3694\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/10\/2786279963_f555014a3a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These images capture the Columbia University class of 1909 posing as &#8220;Zulu Savages&#8221; (found here\u00a0thanks to Penny R.)\u00a0 We may not be so surprised to see such mimickry of blacks in 1909, but I think that when compared to these pictures of college students at race-themed parties in 2007, it might make for some interesting [&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":[209,232,253,283,285,1760],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-cultural-imperialismneocolonialism","tag-history","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","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=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29844,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions\/29844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}