{"id":56623,"date":"2013-08-04T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=56623"},"modified":"2013-08-03T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T20:49:09","slug":"what-exactly-will-happen-if-black-men-pull-their-pants-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/08\/04\/what-exactly-will-happen-if-black-men-pull-their-pants-up\/","title":{"rendered":"What Exactly Will Happen If Black Men Pull Their Pants Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_16.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56625\" alt=\"Screenshot_1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_16.png\" width=\"557\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_16.png 557w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_16-500x87.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a>In this five minutes, Jay Smooth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illdoctrine.com\/2013\/08\/on_don_lemon_race_and_respecta.html\" target=\"_blank\">attacks<\/a> the &#8220;politics of respectability&#8221; and attacks it hard. What exactly will happen, he asks, if Black men pull their pants up? \u00a0Affordable housing? Well-funded schools? Job opportunities? What is this politics really about? \u00a0Our shame, internalized racism, and sense of helplessness, he says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mmdlMlRdt7Y?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/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>In this five minutes, Jay Smooth attacks the &#8220;politics of respectability&#8221; and attacks it hard. What exactly will happen, he asks, if Black men pull their pants up? \u00a0Affordable housing? Well-funded schools? Job opportunities? What is this politics really about? \u00a0Our shame, internalized racism, and sense of helplessness, he says. Lisa Wade, PhD is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":56626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,272,8118,285,1760,3504,133],"class_list":["post-56623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-marriagefamily","tag-organizationsinstitutions","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-social-structure","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_24.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56623","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=56623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56627,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56623\/revisions\/56627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}