{"id":41750,"date":"2015-07-13T14:20:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41750"},"modified":"2015-07-13T14:20:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:20:29","slug":"a-bias-more-than-skin-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41750","title":{"rendered":"A Bias More Than Skin Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/13\/opinion\/charles-blow-a-bias-more-than-skin-deep.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Bias More Than Skin Deep<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-07-13<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charlesmblow\" target=\"_blank\">Charles M. Blow<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will never forget the October 2013 feature on <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2013\/10\/changing-faces\/funderburg-text\" target=\"_blank\">National Geographic\u2019s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>There was a pair of portraits of olive-skinned, ruby-lipped boys, one with a mane of curly black hair, the other with the tendrils of blond curls falling into his face.<\/p>\n<p>The portraits rested above the headline: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2013\/10\/changing-faces\/funderburg-text\" target=\"_blank\">The Changing Face of America: We\u2019ve become a country where race is no longer so black or white<\/a>.\u201d It was about the explosion of interracial marriage in America and how it is likely to impact both our concept of race and the physical appearances of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2012\/02\/16\/the-rise-of-intermarriage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center pointed out in a 2012 report<\/a>: \u201cAbout 15 percent of all new marriages in the United States in 2010 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another, more than double the share in 1980 (6.7 percent).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People often think of the browning of America as a factor of immigration or racial\/ethnic variances in birth rates, but it must also be considered this way: as a function of interracial coupling and racial identifications.<\/p>\n<p>This freedom and fluidity is, on one level, a beautiful sign of societal progress toward less racial rigidity. But, at the same time, I am left with a nagging question: does this browning represent an overcoming, on some level, of anti-black racism, or a socio-evolutionary sidestepping of it?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/13\/opinion\/charles-blow-a-bias-more-than-skin-deep.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bias More Than Skin Deep The New York Times 2015-07-13 Charles M. Blow I will never forget the October 2013 feature on National Geographic\u2019s website: There was a pair of portraits of olive-skinned, ruby-lipped boys, one with a mane of curly black hair, the other with the tendrils of blond curls falling into his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,394,20],"tags":[15263,15262,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-41750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-charles-blow","tag-charles-m-blow","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41750","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=41750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}