{"id":47245,"date":"2012-05-10T12:16:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T17:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=47245"},"modified":"2012-05-10T12:16:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T17:16:30","slug":"social-media-and-the-fight-over-urban-outfitters-appropriation-of-native-american-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/05\/10\/social-media-and-the-fight-over-urban-outfitters-appropriation-of-native-american-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media and the Fight over Urban Outfitters&#8217; Appropriation of Native American Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/prezi.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-47247\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/prezi-500x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/prezi-500x169.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/prezi.jpg 547w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/nativeappropriations.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/tracing-urban-outfitters-case-and-role.html\" target=\"_blank\">Native Appropriations<\/a> featured a presentation about Urban Outfitters, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/04\/13\/american-indian-is-in\/\" target=\"_blank\">cultural appropriation in fashion<\/a>, and the struggle to get the clothing chain to stop labeling clothing as &#8220;Navajo.&#8221; The presentation is great both for explaining this particular case &#8212; which included the Navajo nation sending a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Urban Outfitters stop using the term Navajo in its marketing &#8212; and also because it shows how one particular story spread through social media, which increasingly have the ability to bring mainstream media attention to stories that otherwise might have gone unnoticed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"prezi-player\"><object id=\"prezi_yziuhanooo9n\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" 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=\"flashvars\" value=\"prezi_id=yziuhanooo9n&amp;lock_to_path=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;autoplay=no&amp;autohide_ctrls=0\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/bin\/preziloader.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div class=\"prezi-player-links\">\n<p><a title=\"Native Americans vs Urban Outfitters\" href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/yziuhanooo9n\/native-americans-vs-urban-outfitters\/\">Native Americans vs Urban Outfitters<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\">Prezi<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Native Appropriations featured a presentation about Urban Outfitters, cultural appropriation in fashion, and the struggle to get the clothing chain to stop labeling clothing as &#8220;Navajo.&#8221; The presentation is great both for explaining this particular case &#8212; which included the Navajo nation sending a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Urban Outfitters stop using the term [&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":[225,129,3960,285,1758,140],"class_list":["post-47245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-media","tag-nation-navajo","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-american-indiansaboriginals","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47245","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=47245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47249,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47245\/revisions\/47249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}