{"id":50243,"date":"2012-08-01T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=50243"},"modified":"2012-08-01T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T19:00:26","slug":"breakfast-of-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/08\/01\/breakfast-of-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast of Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrienne K., who blogs at Native Appropriations<\/a>, recently put together a post about food products that feature stereotypical images of Native Americans. I’m reposting some of them here, but check out her original post<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n

It started out with Calumet baking powder:<\/p>\n

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Adrienne explains,<\/p>\n

In my head, I thought “I could make some stereotype biscuits for breakfast!” Which got me thinking. How many products with stereotypical imagery could I fit in one imaginary breakfast?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Excluding vintage products and items that weren’t easily available, she still found an awful lot. Indian Head corn meal<\/a>, anyone?<\/p>\n

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Land-O-Lakes<\/a> butter:<\/p>\n

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The Sue Bee Honey<\/a> logo:<\/p>\n

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Umpqua ice cream:<\/p>\n

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Pemmican<\/a> beef jerky:<\/p>\n

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And you can top off your meal with Cherikee Red soda<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Adrienne explains,<\/p>\n

In isolation, each of these would seem like no big deal–these are the “good” stereotypical images. The “noble savage.” No wild eyes or big noses, just headdresses and Indian maidens. But when taken as a collective, is it any wonder that most people in the world think of Native peoples as headdress-wearing Plains chiefs or buckskin-clad Indian women? I’m not saying there isn’t stereotypical imagery of other racial\/ethnic groups in branding, but the ubiquity of Native imagery is striking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out her blog for her full discussion<\/a> of the problems with the repetition of these limited, anachronistic<\/a> images of Native Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adrienne K., who blogs at Native Appropriations, recently put together a post about food products that feature stereotypical images of Native Americans. I’m reposting some of them here, but check out her original post for more. It started out with Calumet baking powder: Adrienne explains, In my head, I thought “I could make some stereotype […]<\/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":[279,227,285,1758],"class_list":["post-50243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-commodification","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-american-indiansaboriginals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50243","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=50243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50259,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50243\/revisions\/50259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}