{"id":36257,"date":"2014-04-15T14:45:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36257"},"modified":"2014-04-15T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T15:29:44","slug":"national-geographic-concludes-what-americans-will-look-like-in-2050-and-its-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36257","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It’s Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It’s Beautiful<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

PolicyMic<\/a>
\n2014-04-10<\/p>\n

Zak Cheney-Rice<\/strong><\/a>, Writer covering race, hip-hop, sports and pop culture<\/p>\n

It’s no secret that interracial relationships are trending upward, and in a matter of years we’ll have Tindered, OKCupid-ed and otherwise sexed ourselves into one giant amalgamated mega-race.<\/p>\n

But what will we look like? National Geographic<\/em><\/a> built its 125th anniversary issue around this very question last October, commissioning Martin Schoeller, a renowned photographer and portrait artist, to capture the lovely faces of our nation’s multiracial future.<\/p>\n

Here’s how the “average American” will look by the year 2050:…<\/p>\n

…So is an end approaching?<\/strong> Will increased racial mixing finally and permanently redefine how we imagine our racial identities? The latest figures suggest we’re getting more comfortable with the idea, or perhaps that we simply give fewer shits than ever before. Either would be a step in the right direction…<\/p>\n

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

National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It’s Beautiful PolicyMic 2014-04-10 Zak Cheney-Rice, Writer covering race, hip-hop, sports and pop culture It’s no secret that interracial relationships are trending upward, and in a matter of years we’ll have Tindered, OKCupid-ed and otherwise sexed ourselves into one giant amalgamated mega-race. But what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,20],"tags":[15901,13297,17216],"class_list":["post-36257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-national-geographic","tag-policymic","tag-zak-cheney-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36257","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=36257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}