{"id":46700,"date":"2012-04-26T08:34:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T13:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=46700"},"modified":"2012-04-26T17:44:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T22:44:36","slug":"challenging-stereotypes-of-african-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/04\/26\/challenging-stereotypes-of-african-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Stereotypes of African Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-26-at-6.14.23-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-46701\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-26-at-6.14.23-AM-500x191.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-26-at-6.14.23-AM-500x191.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-26-at-6.14.23-AM.png 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve posted in the past about stereotypes about Africa. For instance,\u00a0Binyavanga Wainaina&#8217;s video describes <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/01\/06\/how-not-to-write-about-africa-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">common tropes used when non-Africans write about Africa<\/a>, while\u00a0Chimamanda Adichie discusses the problem with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/17\/the-single-story-of-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\">limited narratives we hear about African people and nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In another great example of challenging such stereotypes, Dolores sent us a video in which four young men highlight common portrayals of Africans &#8212; and specifically, African men &#8212; in movies. It&#8217;s really great:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"314\" 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\/qSElmEmEjb4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/2012\/04\/four_african_men_school_you_on_hollywood_stereotypes_video.html\" target=\"_blank\">Colorlines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve posted in the past about stereotypes about Africa. For instance,\u00a0Binyavanga Wainaina&#8217;s video describes common tropes used when non-Africans write about Africa, while\u00a0Chimamanda Adichie discusses the problem with the limited narratives we hear about African people and nations. In another great example of challenging such stereotypes, Dolores sent us a video in which four young [&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":[232,343,701,285,1760],"class_list":["post-46700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cultural-imperialismneocolonialism","tag-tvmovies","tag-modernprimitive","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46700","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=46700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46708,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46700\/revisions\/46708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}