{"id":41549,"date":"2012-01-13T12:49:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T17:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=41549"},"modified":"2013-11-08T05:09:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T10:09:14","slug":"the-commodification-of-the-ghetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/01\/13\/the-commodification-of-the-ghetto\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commodification of the Ghetto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/Screenshot_2.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41551\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/Screenshot_2.png\" width=\"558\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/Screenshot_2.png 558w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/Screenshot_2-500x133.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a>In this minute-and-a-half, sociologist Nikki Jones talks about the way that the idea of the ghetto has been commodified &#8212; especially in rap and hip hop &#8212; in ways that informs Americans who don&#8217;t live in inner-city urban areas, but potentially mystifies the reality of that life as well:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" 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\/Zlhrhn92P_k?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/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>In this minute-and-a-half, sociologist Nikki Jones talks about the way that the idea of the ghetto has been commodified &#8212; especially in rap and hip hop &#8212; in ways that informs Americans who don&#8217;t live in inner-city urban areas, but potentially mystifies the reality of that life as well: Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate [&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":[29,227,229,778,285,341,133],"class_list":["post-41549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-commodification","tag-consumption","tag-intersectionality","tag-raceethnicity","tag-ruralurban","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41549","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=41549"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58520,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41549\/revisions\/58520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}