{"id":52143,"date":"2012-10-22T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=52143"},"modified":"2017-09-17T15:39:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T20:39:36","slug":"what-color-is-rihannas-new-fragrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/10\/22\/what-color-is-rihannas-new-fragrance\/","title":{"rendered":"What Color is Rihanna’s New Fragrance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oops they did it again. \u00a0What color do you think graces the bottle and packaging for Rihanna’s new fragrance, named “Nude”? \u00a0You guessed it.<\/p>\n

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The deep and abiding centrality of whiteness is made especially clear when words like “nude” \u00a0are used to describe light tan even in the context of a darker-skinned woman<\/em>.\u00a0It happened to Michelle Obama too<\/a>. \u00a0Thanks to @GenderPolitics<\/a> on Twitter<\/a> for sending us the tip!<\/p>\n

We’ve many examples of this phenomenon. \u00a0All can be found on our Pinterest page, titled “What Color is Flesh?<\/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":"

Oops they did it again. \u00a0What color do you think graces the bottle and packaging for Rihanna’s new fragrance, named “Nude”? \u00a0You guessed it. \u00a0 The deep and abiding centrality of whiteness is made especially clear when words like “nude” \u00a0are used to describe light tan even in the context of a darker-skinned woman.\u00a0It happened […]<\/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":[373,23384,283,285],"class_list":["post-52143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-color","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52143","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=52143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71576,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52143\/revisions\/71576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}