{"id":24091,"date":"2012-07-02T18:36:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T18:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24091"},"modified":"2015-07-23T17:47:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T17:47:59","slug":"artspeak-macys-misses-the-boat-on-celebration-of-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24091","title":{"rendered":"Artspeak: Macys misses the boat on celebration of Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/insightnews.com\/commentary\/9044-artspeak-macys-misses-the-boat-on-celebration-of-brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Artspeak: Macys misses the boat on celebration of Brazil<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insightnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">InsightNews.com<\/a><br \/>\n2012-06-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irmamcclaurin.com\" target=\"_blank\">Irma McClaurin, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>, Culture and Education Editor<\/p>\n<p>What a delightful surprise to open my mailbox and see <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.macys.com\/campaign\/social?campaign_id=315&amp;channel_id=1&amp;cm_sp=brasil-_-n-_-n\" target=\"_blank\">Macys touting a celebration of Brazil<\/a>.\u00a0 The merchandise colors are vibrant oranges, yellows, and shocking turquoise.\u00a0 However, as I looked at the models chosen to represent Brazil, it was clear that Macys had missed the boat. Brazil is a multi-racial country. Everyone knows that its people represent a human rainbow, and in fact, after World War II, American scholars often pointed to Brazil as the racial ideal.\u00a0 Thus was born what anthropologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/france-winddance-twine\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. France Winddance Twine<\/a> has critiqued as the myth of Brazil as a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22166\" target=\"_blank\">racial democracy<\/a>.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/insightnews.com\/commentary\/9044-artspeak-macys-misses-the-boat-on-celebration-of-brazil\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artspeak: Macys misses the boat on celebration of Brazil InsightNews.com 2012-06-12 Irma McClaurin, Ph.D., Culture and Education Editor What a delightful surprise to open my mailbox and see Macys touting a celebration of Brazil.\u00a0 The merchandise colors are vibrant oranges, yellows, and shocking turquoise.\u00a0 However, as I looked at the models chosen to represent Brazil, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,21,8413,8,394,20],"tags":[10546,11157,10547,11158],"class_list":["post-24091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-insight-news","tag-insightnews-com","tag-irma-mcclaurin","tag-macys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41890,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24091\/revisions\/41890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}