{"id":33601,"date":"2013-09-14T00:52:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T00:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33601"},"modified":"2013-09-15T16:50:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T16:50:14","slug":"the-changing-face-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33601","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Face of America"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Changing Face of America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

National Geographic Magazine<\/a>
\nOctober 2013<\/a>
\nSpecial 125th Anniversary Issue: The Power of Photography<\/p>\n

Lise Funderburg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Photography by Martin Schoeller<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lise Funderburg is the author of<\/em> Black, White, Other<\/a> and<\/em> Pig Candy<\/a>. When asked, \u201cWhat are you?\u201d she often describes herself as a woman of some color.<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve become a country where race is no longer so black or white.<\/em><\/p>\n

What is it about the faces on these pages that we find so intriguing? Is it simply that their features disrupt our expectations, that we\u2019re not used to seeing those eyes with that hair, that nose above those lips? Our responses can range from the armchair anthropologist\u2019s benign desire to unravel ancestries and find common ground to active revulsion at group boundaries being violated or, in the language of racist days past, \u201cwatered down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Out in the world, the more curious (or less polite) among us might approach, asking, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d or \u201cWhat are you?\u201d We look and wonder because what we see\u2014and our curiosity\u2014speaks volumes about our country\u2019s past, its present, and the promise and peril of its future.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Census Bureau<\/a> has collected detailed data on multiracial people only since 2000, when it first allowed respondents to check off more than one race, and 6.8 million people chose to do so. Ten years later that number jumped by 32 percent, making it one of the fastest growing categories. The multiple-race option has been lauded as progress by individuals frustrated by the limitations of the racial categories established in the late 18th century by German scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach<\/a>, who divided humans into five \u201cnatural varieties\u201d of red, yellow, brown, black, and white. Although the multiple-race option is still rooted in that taxonomy, it introduces the factor of self-determination. It\u2019s a step toward fixing a categorization system that, paradoxically, is both erroneous (since geneticists have demonstrated that race is biologically not a reality) and essential (since living with race and racism is). The tracking of race is used both to enforce antidiscrimination laws and to identify health issues specific to certain populations…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>. View the photographs here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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