{"id":56113,"date":"2018-04-02T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56113"},"modified":"2018-04-02T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T22:42:00","slug":"national-geographics-race-cover-story-misconstrues-multiraciality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56113","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic\u2019s race cover story misconstrues multiraciality"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Geographic\u2019s race cover story misconstrues multiraciality<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The McGill Tribune<\/a>
\nMcGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
\n2018-04-02<\/p>\n

Emma Avery<\/strong><\/a>, Managing Editor<\/p>\n

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When I first read Patricia Edmonds\u2019<\/a> cover story<\/a> on Millie and Marcia Biggs\u2014half-black, half-white fraternal twins\u2014for National Geographic\u2019s<\/em> April 2018 Race Issue, I felt conflicted. As a person of mixed race, with a father from Hong Kong<\/a> and a mother of largely Scottish descent, I was happy for this family\u2019s opportunity to share their experiences. Although national media are increasingly latching onto stories about race, people of mixed race don\u2019t often get the spotlight.<\/p>\n

National Geographic\u2019s<\/em> cover is undoubtedly an attempt to normalize multiraciality and destabilize false notions of \u2018race\u2019 as a natural category. Yet, by focusing on the visual differences between the twins, the article misses more meaningful and nuanced questions of culture and identity that people such as myself often grapple with. Instead, it places mixed race children on a pedestal that risks exoticizing them…<\/p>\n

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

Yet, by focusing on the visual differences between the twins, the article misses more meaningful and nuanced questions of culture and identity that people such as myself often grapple with. Instead, it places mixed race children on a pedestal that risks exoticizing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8],"tags":[28340,28339,28338,28128,15901,28127,28337],"class_list":["post-56113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","tag-emma-avery","tag-marcia-bigg","tag-mcgill-tribune","tag-millie-biggs","tag-national-geographic","tag-patricia-edmonds","tag-the-mcgill-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56113","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=56113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56115,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56113\/revisions\/56115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}