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(16,445 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)The level to which we accept and normalize the inverse of these images is exactly what systemic racism is.
Thank you for sharing these.
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Vdizzle
(383 posts)calimary
(81,440 posts)chowder66
(9,075 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)A friend sent me the photos in a text.
chowder66
(9,075 posts)chowder66
(9,075 posts)It was for a photo essay for "O" magazine.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/these-profound-photos-masterfully-turn-racial-stereotypes-on-their-head_n_591dceece4b03b485caf8c6d
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)chowder66
(9,075 posts)orleans
(34,073 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)and fear is palpable
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)from New York - I wasn't 10.
On the other hand I thought about the little white girl who wanted a black dolly - remember this
https://globalnews.ca/news/3359396/white-girl-who-chose-to-get-a-black-doll-defends-her-decision-to-confused-cashier/
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Sure makes the case for no ones born a racist.
I was about 10 as well when I received my first black doll, and still have her. Little Thumbelina....pull the string on her back and she moves! Nowadays, like me, she moves a little slowly and creaks a bit.
cannabis_flower
(3,765 posts)got my granddaughter a black doll. It was a knockoff of one of those American Girl dolls and it came in different colors of skin, hair and eyes. She is not black but it was the closest one to my granddaughter. It was the only one that had dark brown hair and eyes. She didn't even care and it was a while before anyone even commented.
llmart
(15,552 posts)She has white Barbies and a Ken doll too but I like watching her play with them and never does she point out that one is black or different. She also has black LOL dolls. However, she also goes to a preschool that has a very diverse population. Children just do not care what skin color a person is.
However, she did one time tell her mother that "boys are stupid".
Children just do not care what skin color a person is.
calimary
(81,440 posts)She had lots of Barbies. And then, Mattel came out with an international line of Barbies. So we had a Chinese Barbie and a Princess Jasmine Barbie, too. And there were lots of lessons that just automatically got absorbed without needing any lectures or commentary. There were also cultural lessons from the international Barbies - the outfits they came in as well as the countries or parts of the world they "came from". It all worked to widen her outlook. Not all mommies came the same way as the one she was issued. Her mommy worked in a career she loved (gave it up because a couple of "somethings" had come along whom she loved more).
yardwork
(61,700 posts)Remarkably, one was available in the rural K-Mart where I grew up. It was important to me to have the black doll, and my parents got it for me for my birthday.
I'm white, my family is white, I grew up in a nearly 100% white community in the Midwest. I was probably starved for diversity.
That's a normal response of a human child who isn't taught hatred and prejudice. I think that everybody seeks diversity unless they're taught to fear.
Demovictory9
(32,472 posts)onecaliberal
(32,888 posts)Several years ago, we were sitting at a Wallgreens pharmacy waiting for a prescription, my daughter had her Tatiana doll with her. A woman sitting near us asked me why I would let my daughter play with that doll. I was shocked. I looked at her and said, "because she loves Princess Tatiana." I grabbed my daughter by the hand and we promptly walked away from the woman. I had to talk to her about racist people that day. It made us both cry.
Why do white people think they're better than any other race?
yardwork
(61,700 posts)What a bitter, fearful, mean person. You handled it well.
ancianita
(36,132 posts)Are you implying that the tables should turn? That whites should be afraid?
I don't get that from these pictures.
samsingh
(17,600 posts)BComplex
(8,060 posts)represent to millions and millions of Americans.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)It is the one that most closely represents the current reality.
yardwork
(61,700 posts)That scene is played out in thousands and thousands of salons every day, as poorly paid Asian and other women of color serve white, upper income women who often know one another and chat while their nails are done.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Hedren flew in her personal manicurist to teach a group of 20 refugees the art of manicures. Those 20 women - mainly the wives of high-ranking military officers and at least one woman who worked in military intelligence - went on to transform the industry, which is now worth about $8bn (£5.2bn) and is dominated by Vietnamese Americans.
"We were trying to find vocations for them," says Hedren, who is perhaps best known for starring in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and for running a wildcat sanctuary at her home in Southern California.
"I brought in seamstresses and typists - any way for them to learn something. And they loved my fingernails."
"I loved these women so much that I wanted something good to happen for them after losing literally everything," Hedren told the BBC from a museum she is building next to her home. The museum includes Hollywood memorabilia, a few photos of the women at Camp Hope and awards she's won from the nail care industry.
"Some of them lost their entire family and everything they had in Vietnam: their homes; their jobs; their friends - everything was gone. They lost even their own country."
The Vietnamese gave the nail salon business a radical makeover. In the 1970s, manicures and pedicures cost around $50 - fine for Hollywood starlets but out of reach for most American women. Today, a basic "mani-pedi" can cost around $20 - largely due to Vietnamese American salons, which typically charge 30-50% less than other salons, according to NAILS Magazine.
Forty years after the fall of Saigon, 51% of nail technicians in the United States - and approximately 80% in California - are of Vietnamese descent. And many are direct descendants of that first class of women inspired by the nails of a Hitchcock blonde.
"My mother is best friends with Thuan Le, one of Tippi's original students. It was Thuan who encouraged my mother to get into the business."
As Nguyen speaks, dozens of students are learning about cuticle care in a lecture behind him. At 41, Mr Nguyen was born just before the fall of Saigon. In Vietnam, his father was a military officer and his mother a hairdresser. His parents pressured him to become a doctor, which he dutifully did, but then he decided his heart was in the nail business.
"It broke my mother's heart," he says.
The language barrier was the initial reason nails were an attractive option for refugees. They only had to learn a few phrases of English to get by.
Not all of the women remained in the nail salon business, but many did. Thuan Le is still working at a salon in Santa Monica, California. Yan Rist, who worked in military intelligence in Vietnam as a translator and then later as a secretary for State Department officials, stayed in the nail business then moved into tattoos once she settled in Palm Springs.
"Tippi got me a job in Beverly Hills so I could make a lot of money," Yan Rist said. "I worked on Rodeo Drive - but I am a refugee and I didn't dress well at the time. All the rich women coming in - they didn't want to try the newcomer. Every day I went to work it cost me $8 for the parking. Eight dollars for parking! In 1976!"
She says Hedren helped her get a different job closer to home when she quit her job in Beverly Hills.
niyad
(113,527 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)This article features the first image in the OP.
ABC Radio National
By Hannah Reich for Books and Arts
Posted 19 July 2017, updated 23 November 2017
The Cape York community of Coen, home to just over 300 people, has a violent past as a mining camp and police base.
"It was set up to gather the Indigenous people from out in the bush and chain them up and bring them into Coen ... to get them off the country," says artist and Kaantju traditional owner Naomi Hobson.
Now, in collaboration with photographer Greg Semu, Hobson has set out to explore this history by recreating brutal archival images.
But in Semu's images the script has been flipped often the victims pose as abusers. And the entire Indigenous community of Coen was involved in the recreations.
More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-19/restaging-violent-historical-photos-indigenous-community-coen/8720480
The third and fourth images are in this article:
A powerful new photo essay reexamines our relationship with race.
By Lilly Workneh
May 18, 2017
Lets Talk About Race is a powerful photo essay published in the latest issue of O, The Oprah Magazine that challenges the ways we view race in a masterful way.
The magazines editor-in-chief Lucy Kaylin, who oversaw all production of the publications Race Issue, commissioned photographer Chris Buck to help bring Oprahs vision for the feature to life. Each of the three photos in the essay shows women or girls of color in a role reversal from the ways in which they are stereotypically seen ― or not seen ― compared to white women or girls.
One image shows several East Asian women at a nail salon being pampered by white female beauticians. Another shows a young white girl at a toy store standing before a row of shelves stocked only with black dolls, and the last image shows a posh Hispanic woman on the phone as her white maid tends to her.
The story grew out of a big ideas meeting we had with Oprah; it was a topic on all of our minds and she was eager for us to tackle it, Kaylin said in a statement to HuffPost. The main thing we wanted to do was deal with the elephant in the room that race is a thorny issue in our culture, and tensions are on the rise. So lets do our part to get an honest, compassionate conversation going, in which people feel heard and we all learn something especially how we can all do better and move forward. Boldly, with open hearts and minds.
More: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/these-profound-photos-masterfully-turn-racial-stereotypes-on-their-head_n_591dceece4b03b485caf8c6d
The second one gets a hit for this article which I cannot access:
Activist Rachel Cargle Starts a Conversation About Racial Representation in the Media
https://www.swaay.com/rachel-cargle-racial-media-representation?rebelltitem=2
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)IronLionZion
(45,516 posts)When someone posts it on social media or a blog or someplace with different types of viewers, certain types of people lose their minds.
StarryNite
(9,459 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)lame54
(35,317 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)entrepreneurs of all races love customers!
lame54
(35,317 posts)A movement where white women no longer get pedicures
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Asians at a Chinese buffet?
To show that....hmmm....something.
yardwork
(61,700 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)JI7
(89,262 posts)maybe if there was an image of internment or something.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)fear.
eppur_se_muova
(36,281 posts)ancianita
(36,132 posts)erronis
(15,328 posts)ancianita
(36,132 posts)radical noodle
(8,012 posts)a white Prissy.
crickets
(25,982 posts)dlk
(11,575 posts)The gender roles were reversed in the show. Actually seeing a situation from the other side can be powerful.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,335 posts)jcgoldie
(11,639 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,600 posts)Powerful. Thank you for sharing.
moondust
(20,002 posts)Only for a couple hundred years.
ktower
(7 posts)racist a$$holes need to put the shoe on the other foot
tecelote
(5,122 posts)tishaLA
(14,176 posts)madeup64
(257 posts)The movie was based on society where black people where the majority and white people were the minority It was with John Travolta and I think Harry Belafonte. I was a teenager when I saw it. Being white and not very enlightened about systemic racism I remember the movie striking quite a chord. I remember how bad I felt for John Travolta's character and how much I disliked Belafonte's character. It really opened my eyes and made me think a lot about race relations and how it feels to be a black man in America. It was easy for me to see that because Travolta was white and I was white that was the driving factor in how I was upset about how his character was treated. I think it was the first time I ever really thought about how it might actually be to walk a mile in the shoes of someone who is not a white.
DemInBuckhead
(111 posts)I actually never saw the movie but I definitely remember seeing a review of it. (I'd guess Siskel and Ebert) The scenes they showed were striking.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)I just love this!!!
wryter2000
(46,077 posts)Especially the first one