{"id":47154,"date":"2012-05-26T11:33:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T16:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=47154"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:26:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:26:37","slug":"non-white-centric-uses-of-the-term-nude-and-its-synonyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/05\/26\/non-white-centric-uses-of-the-term-nude-and-its-synonyms\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-White-Centric Uses of Terms Like “Nude”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently posted a series of examples of the words “nude,” “skin-toned,” and “flesh-colored” being used to describe light-tan<\/a>. In other words, a linguistic erasure of people who don’t have light skin.<\/p>\n

In response,\u00a0Kristen S. and Jessica J. sent in pictures of Urban Armor bandaids. \u00a0As you can see, they come in three colors and all of them are called “skin-tone.” \u00a0Awesome.<\/p>\n

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We’ve collected other counter-examples, as well.<\/p>\n

Andrea C. noted in 2010 that\u00a0Elle<\/a>\u00a0did a segment on “Nude Nails” and highlighted OPI polish, mentioning the fact that they had “actual nude options for every skin tone”:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here are the colors that OPI calls “nude” today:<\/p>\n

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Breck C. found a website,\u00a0My Skins<\/a>, specializing in skin-matching underwear for a range of skin tones:<\/p>\n

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Eve F. discovered that\u00a0Aldo<\/a>\u00a0included shoes of some different possible flesh-tones in it’s “nude” section (at least in 2010; the section doesn’t look like this today<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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So, we can hope that consciousness is being raised, even if this<\/a> can still happen.<\/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":"

I recently posted a series of examples of the words “nude,” “skin-toned,” and “flesh-colored” being used to describe light-tan. In other words, a linguistic erasure of people who don’t have light skin. In response,\u00a0Kristen S. and Jessica J. sent in pictures of Urban Armor bandaids. \u00a0As you can see, they come in three colors and […]<\/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":[373,23384,23703,285],"class_list":["post-47154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-color","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-marketing","tag-raceethnicity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47154","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=47154"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47160,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47154\/revisions\/47160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}