{"id":61409,"date":"2011-02-14T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T19:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=61409"},"modified":"2014-02-10T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:58:00","slug":"racist-vintage-valentines-day-cards-africans-and-african-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/14\/racist-vintage-valentines-day-cards-africans-and-african-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards: Africans and African Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valentine’s Day cards reflect the cultural context at the time and, in times of racism, cards punned and joked with racial stereotypes. \u00a0We’ve collected examples featuring American Indians<\/a> and Asians<\/a>, here’s our selection of racist cards with Africans and African Americans. \u00a0Trigger warning for grotesque caricature and violence.<\/p>\n

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Cards via\u00a0Hearts Atwirl<\/a>\u00a0and Buzzfeed<\/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":"

Valentine’s Day cards reflect the cultural context at the time and, in times of racism, cards punned and joked with racial stereotypes. \u00a0We’ve collected examples featuring American Indians and Asians, here’s our selection of racist cards with Africans and African Americans. \u00a0Trigger warning for grotesque caricature and violence. Cards via\u00a0Hearts Atwirl\u00a0and Buzzfeed. Lisa Wade, PhD […]<\/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":[254,283,285,1760,20063,23705],"class_list":["post-61409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61409","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=61409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61423,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61409\/revisions\/61423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}