{"id":375,"date":"2008-01-18T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/01\/18\/blackface-candies\/"},"modified":"2017-09-29T10:07:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:07:53","slug":"blackface-candies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/01\/18\/blackface-candies\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Packaged with Racial Imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/90f0fbb.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156855258250665986\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/290f0fbb.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are Italian candies with chocolate inside. You can read a description of them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/an-introduction-to-italian-candy-caramelle\/\">here<\/a> (scroll down the page quite a bit). I&#8217;m not sure what the point of the shiny dot on the forehead is.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Denise H. for finding this image! <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/spaceball.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156854867408642034\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2spaceball.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>NEW!<\/strong><\/span> Kathleen T. sent in this photo she took in Segovia, Spain, of a popsicle that had a stereotypical Asian figure on it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12821 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_9136\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/01\/IMG_9136-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9136\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/01\/IMG_9136-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/01\/IMG_9136-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Notice that the &#8220;Asian&#8221; face is in the shape of a lemon; Kathleen suggested that the idea might be &#8220;lemon = yellow = Asian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\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>These are Italian candies with chocolate inside. You can read a description of them here (scroll down the page quite a bit). I&#8217;m not sure what the point of the shiny dot on the forehead is. Thanks to Denise H. for finding this image! NEW! Kathleen T. sent in this photo she took in Segovia, [&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":[279,2124,1819,285,1760],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-foodagriculture","tag-nation-italy","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71826,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/71826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}