{"id":45249,"date":"2012-03-04T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T17:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=45249"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:51:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:51:46","slug":"the-first-black-disney-princess-loves-watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/03\/04\/the-first-black-disney-princess-loves-watermelon\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Black Disney Princess Loves Watermelon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I posted about the stereotype that Black people love watermelons<\/a>, explaining that it originated with efforts to justify slavery. \u00a0Black people were simple, slavery proponents argued, so a delicious watermelon was enough to make them happy.<\/p>\n

This stereotype, long past its strategic usefulness, nonetheless persists. \u00a0Barack Obama’s election to the U.S. presidency, for example, inspired a rash of watermelon-themed commentary, including this one:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>(source<\/a>)<\/p>\n

In light of this history, as well as the ongoing racism, the product below — a Valentine’s Day candy that pairs two Disney princesses — is rather, let’s say, insensitive. \u00a0The White Cinderella<\/del>\u00a0Aurora character decorates the vanilla flavored side; the Black Tiana character decorates the watermelon flavored side. \u00a0Just… wow.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Caroline H. for forwarding this along.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I posted about the stereotype that Black people love watermelons, explaining that it originated with efforts to justify slavery. \u00a0Black people were simple, slavery proponents argued, so a delicious watermelon was enough to make them happy. This stereotype, long past its strategic usefulness, nonetheless persists. \u00a0Barack Obama’s election to the U.S. presidency, for […]<\/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":[2124,253,254,285,1760],"class_list":["post-45249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-history","tag-holidays","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45249","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=45249"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58457,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45249\/revisions\/58457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}