{"id":499,"date":"2008-03-06T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/06\/who-gets-to-be-african\/"},"modified":"2010-11-23T21:58:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T02:58:24","slug":"who-gets-to-be-african","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/06\/who-gets-to-be-african\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Identity Politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do we feel about this campaign, by <a href=\"http:\/\/keepachildalive.org\/\">Keep A Child Alive<\/a>, to encourage people to donate money to Africa on the basis that we are all African? (Apparently we only care about ourselves, so if we suggest that Africa is ourselves, then we&#8217;ll donate?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/IAMAFRICANContent.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2IAMAFRICANContent.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do Americans, many of whom are white people with privilege based in race, class, and nation, get to claim Africa as theirs? Do white people now get to have blackness too? \u00a0Is this insulting? Some people think so. Here is a larger version of the poster with Gwyneth Paltrow (scroll down for a response):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/paltrow.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2paltrow.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/vps.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2vps.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I borrowed this image from <a href=\"http:\/\/blackademic.com\/?p=139\">Blackademic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>NEW!<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span> Julie C. noticed that the Canadian Centre for Diversity put out a similar campaign.\u00a0 There&#8217;s something very interesting about it, but I&#8217;m\u00a0having a hard time putting it into words.\u00a0 Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centrefordiversity.ca\/psa.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to watch the short commercial.\u00a0 What do y&#8217;all think of it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we feel about this campaign, by Keep A Child Alive, to encourage people to donate money to Africa on the basis that we are all African? (Apparently we only care about ourselves, so if we suggest that Africa is ourselves, then we&#8217;ll donate?) Do Americans, many of whom are white people with privilege [&hellip;]<\/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":[12508,41,64,1770,23704,285,1760,1757],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-celebrity","tag-globalization","tag-nation-canada","tag-public-service-announcements","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29330,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/29330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}