{"id":48046,"date":"2012-06-16T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=48046"},"modified":"2015-09-19T23:01:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T04:01:17","slug":"humanizing-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/06\/16\/humanizing-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanizing the Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless we’re one of them, many of us learn the habit of looking away from the down-and-out when we’re going about our daily lives. \u00a0Truly seeing<\/em> the homeless, the mentally ill, the drug-addicted, and others in crisis (not overlapping populations, but intersecting ones) potentially forces us to think about our role in a society that has largely abandoned them.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, art photography of these populations tends to force us to look, to see just how much pain and suffering there is to see on the streets.<\/p>\n

In light of this — not looking vs. looking to see the pain — I found the photography of Chris Arnade to be a breath of fresh air. \u00a0Featured at Mother Jones<\/a>, his portraits of “drug abuse, sex work, and homelessness in the Bronx” are humanizing. Many of them show smiling faces, dignity, pride, and peace. I recommend going to see the Flickr set<\/a>.<\/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":"

Unless we’re one of them, many of us learn the habit of looking away from the down-and-out when we’re going about our daily lives. \u00a0Truly seeing the homeless, the mentally ill, the drug-addicted, and others in crisis (not overlapping populations, but intersecting ones) potentially forces us to think about our role in a society that […]<\/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":[29,329],"class_list":["post-48046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-emotion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48046","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=48046"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67895,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48046\/revisions\/67895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}