{"id":41056,"date":"2011-10-30T11:38:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T16:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=41056"},"modified":"2013-11-09T05:11:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T10:11:53","slug":"raising-consciousness-about-racist-halloween-costumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/10\/30\/raising-consciousness-about-racist-halloween-costumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Resistance to Racist Halloween Costumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven readers sent in this wonderfully simple campaign to discourage people from dressing up like <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/29\/racist-halloween-costumes\/\">racial or ethnic caricatures for Halloween<\/a>. \u00a0Or <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/31\/can-we-at-least-agree-that-its-racist-to-dress-your-dog-up-like-a-racial-caricature\/\">dressing their dogs up<\/a> as such.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/10\/culture1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41057\" title=\"photos for poster\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/10\/culture1.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/10\/culture2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41058\" title=\"photos for poster\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/10\/culture2.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/10\/culture3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41059\" title=\"photos for poster\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/10\/culture3.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/10\/culture4.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41060\" title=\"photos for poster\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/10\/culture4.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/10\/culture5.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41061\" title=\"photos for poster\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/10\/culture5.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kudos to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.edu\/orgs\/stars\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">STARS students at Ohio University<\/a> behind this campaign! \u00a0The costumes that they&#8217;re holding up, by the way, are real; we&#8217;ve featured several of them in previous years at SocImages.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Norma M., Amias, Katrin, Dmitriy T.M., A.M.S., Joe F., Sarah D., Sara P., Molly, Patrick C.,\u00a0and Washburn University professor Sangyoub Park! \u00a0It&#8217;s exciting that so many readers sent this in and that the campaign got so much attention. It suggests that many people were hungry for a clear message against this phenomenon.<\/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>Eleven readers sent in this wonderfully simple campaign to discourage people from dressing up like racial or ethnic caricatures for Halloween. \u00a0Or dressing their dogs up as such. Kudos to the\u00a0STARS students at Ohio University behind this campaign! \u00a0The costumes that they&#8217;re holding up, by the way, are real; we&#8217;ve featured several of them in [&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":[254,283,285,1758,1756,1759,1760,1754],"class_list":["post-41056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-american-indiansaboriginals","tag-raceethnicity-arabsmiddle-easterners","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41056","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=41056"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58622,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41056\/revisions\/58622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}