{"id":48604,"date":"2012-06-20T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=48604"},"modified":"2012-06-20T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:46:11","slug":"whose-skin-counts-as-ethnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/06\/20\/whose-skin-counts-as-ethnic\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Skin Counts as &#8220;Ethnic&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our readers sent in an example of our cultural tendency to conflate &#8220;ethnic&#8221; with &#8220;non-white,&#8221; a conflation that renders whiteness invisible in discussions of race\/ethnicity and its social impacts. You Beauty posted a slideshow about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youbeauty.com\/skin\/galleries\/best-sunscreens-for-your-skin\" target=\"_blank\"> choosing an appropriate sunscreen<\/a>, and the first slide highlights two that are &#8220;best for ethnic skin.&#8221; The accompanying text refers to &#8220;deeper skin tones&#8221; and includes a link to a story on &#8220;dark skin decoded&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/06\/sunscreen.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-48605\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/06\/sunscreen-500x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/06\/sunscreen-500x223.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/06\/sunscreen.jpg 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a small example of the way that race and ethnicity are perceived more broadly in our culture, with whiteness taken as the neutral, as the absence of noticeable race\/ethnicity, while &#8220;ethnic&#8221; is the marked, non-neutral state of all those who aren&#8217;t white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our readers sent in an example of our cultural tendency to conflate &#8220;ethnic&#8221; with &#8220;non-white,&#8221; a conflation that renders whiteness invisible in discussions of race\/ethnicity and its social impacts. You Beauty posted a slideshow about choosing an appropriate sunscreen, and the first slide highlights two that are &#8220;best for ethnic skin.&#8221; The accompanying [&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":[285],"class_list":["post-48604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-raceethnicity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48604","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=48604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48607,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48604\/revisions\/48607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}