{"id":54150,"date":"2014-03-01T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=54150"},"modified":"2014-02-22T14:29:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T19:29:39","slug":"from-our-archives-black-history-month-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/03\/01\/from-our-archives-black-history-month-4\/","title":{"rendered":"From Our Archives: Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54151\" alt=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/1.jpg\" width=\"532\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/1.jpg 532w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/1-500x94.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a>As we say goodbye to Black History Month, let us return to posts past.<\/p>\n<p>We have been urged to celebrate\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2026with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/10\/the-paradox-of-black-history-month\/\" target=\"_self\">fried chicken and collard greens<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/17\/frying-chicken-and-collard-greens-headline-black-history-month-themed-flier\/\" target=\"_self\">No really, with fried chicken and collard greens<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>\u2026by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/02\/celebrate-black-history-month-by-relaxing-your-hair\/\" target=\"_self\">relaxing our hair<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/09\/black-history-month-kool-aid-sale\/\">drinking kool-aid<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u2026by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/07\/happy-late-black-history-month-faux-pas\/\">conflating them with \u201cunderprivileged\u201d people<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u2026by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/28\/black-people-let-your-new-life-begin\/\">feeling badly about how fat we are and thinking about surgery<\/a>\u00a0(pictured).<\/li>\n<li>\u2026with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/28\/the-compton-cookout-racism-resistance-and-backlash\/\" target=\"_self\">a \u201cCompton Cookout\u201d complete with blackface and nooses<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>\u2026by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/25\/black-history-month-about-skin-deep\/\" target=\"_self\">buying stuff from companies that do nothing but acknowledge Black History Month<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&lt;sarcasm&gt; Good times. &lt;\/sarcasm&gt;<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we say goodbye to Black History Month, let us return to posts past. We have been urged to celebrate\u2026 \u2026with\u00a0fried chicken and collard greens. No really, with fried chicken and collard greens! \u2026by\u00a0relaxing our hair\u00a0and\u00a0drinking kool-aid. \u2026by\u00a0conflating them with \u201cunderprivileged\u201d people. \u2026by\u00a0feeling badly about how fat we are and thinking about surgery\u00a0(pictured). \u2026with\u00a0a \u201cCompton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":61678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/48.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54150","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=54150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61686,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54150\/revisions\/61686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}