{"id":2910,"date":"2015-01-07T17:41:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T22:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2015-01-07T17:41:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T22:41:38","slug":"marah-gubar-on-annie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2015\/01\/07\/marah-gubar-on-annie\/","title":{"rendered":"Marah Gubar on ANNIE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2015\/01\/d435bb5d-50ab-43ce-9069-d80eb1a80b59.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2911\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2015\/01\/d435bb5d-50ab-43ce-9069-d80eb1a80b59.jpg\" alt=\"d435bb5d-50ab-43ce-9069-d80eb1a80b59\" width=\"560\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2015\/01\/d435bb5d-50ab-43ce-9069-d80eb1a80b59.jpg 560w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2015\/01\/d435bb5d-50ab-43ce-9069-d80eb1a80b59-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/>http:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/multigenre\/the-teflon-kid-how-annie-enables-apathy-about-inequality<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">That an African American child can now be presented to the public as an all-American icon of innocence feels like a victory. After all, children growing up during the Great Depression\u2014when Annie achieved her mythic status\u2014inhabited a society in which purity and beauty were both coded white, as Toni Morrison makes clear in her insightful novel\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Bluest Eye<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0(1970). Morrison\u2019s African American child protagonists struggle to maintain a sense of self-worth at a time when magazines, movies, children\u2019s books, dolls, and even candy wrappers proclaimed that white children had cornered the market on cuteness. In this context, Wallis\u2019s donning of Annie\u2019s famous red dress constitutes a hopeful sign that our culture is growing less wedded to whiteness as an aesthetic ideal.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/multigenre\/the-teflon-kid-how-annie-enables-apathy-about-inequality That an African American child can now be presented to the public as an all-American icon of innocence feels like a victory. After all, children growing up during the Great Depression\u2014when Annie achieved her mythic status\u2014inhabited a society in which purity and beauty were both coded white, as Toni Morrison makes clear in her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}