{"id":6535,"date":"2010-04-09T00:51:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T00:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6535"},"modified":"2013-08-01T01:40:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T01:40:37","slug":"what-does-%e2%80%9cblack%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cwhite%e2%80%9d-look-like-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6535","title":{"rendered":"What Does \u201cBlack\u201d And \u201cWhite\u201d Look Like Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/socimages\/2008\/10\/24\/what-does-black-and-white-look-like-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\">What Does \u201cBlack\u201d And \u201cWhite\u201d Look Like Anyway?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/socimages\" target=\"_blank\">Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere<\/a><br \/>\n2008-10-24<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/departments.oxy.edu\/sociology\/faculty.htm#wade\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Wade<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Occidental College<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinecommunity.nsc.nevada.edu\/staff\/details.asp?id=9391\" target=\"_blank\">Gwen Sharp<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Nevada State College<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These two photos\u2014one of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> as an adult and one of a young Obama and his Grandfather, Stanley Dunham\u2014are a great opportunity to think a little bit about the social construction of race.\u00a0 Comments from both me and Gwen after the pics.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa:\u00a0 Obama, to my eye, is the spitting image of his grandfather. Yet, we see Obama and Dunham as separate races, members of two categories we see as diametrically opposed, even biologically distinct.<\/p>\n<p>Gwen: I tried a little experiment in class. I put up a photo of adult Obama and I had my students make a list of what characteristics made him identifiably Black, in their view. Every one of them put on their list his nose, lips, and hair, and several made comments about his ears or just that \u201cthe combination of all his facial features\u201d was \u201cclearly\u201d Black&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/socimages\/2008\/10\/24\/what-does-black-and-white-look-like-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/10\/obamablanco.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Photo from Mangas Verdes<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/socimages\/2008\/10\/24\/what-does-black-and-white-look-like-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does \u201cBlack\u201d And \u201cWhite\u201d Look Like Anyway? Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2008-10-24 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Gwen Sharp, Assistant Professor of Sociology Nevada State College These two photos\u2014one of Barack Obama as an adult and one of a young Obama and his Grandfather, Stanley Dunham\u2014are a great opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,394,20],"tags":[2733,2731,2732],"class_list":["post-6535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-gwen-sharp","tag-lisa-wade","tag-sociological-images-inspiring-sociological-imaginations-everywhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535","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=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}