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3、4-4321.Theres a reason people chooseMutual of America:People.APRIL 2018 VOL.233 NO.4 OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETYICONTENTSTHE RACE ISSUE2846SKIN DEEPWHAT DIVIDES USWhat is race?Science tells us there is no genetic basis for it.Instead its largely a made-up label,?By Elizabeth
4、Kolbert Photographs by Robin HammondHuman beings are wired at birth to distinguish Us from Them and to favor our own group.Can science help us bridge the divides?By David Berreby Photographs by John StanmeyerMarcia(left)and Millie Biggs,both 11,say people are shocked to learn that theyre fraternal t
5、wins.Marcia looks more like their mother,whos English,and Millie looks more like their father,whos of Jamaican descent.See more about the twins on page 12.Photo by Robin HammondTo mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King,Jr.s assassination,we explore what race means in the 21st century.?Scien
6、ce?color of your skin.How do?ON THE COVERCOMING UP|CONTENTS70|COLORS OF MATRIMONYThe growing acceptance of relationships across racial and ethnic lines can be?By Patricia Edmonds Photographs by Wayne Lawrence142|RESISTANCE,REIMAGINED?the black struggle for freedom.The times?By Maurice Berger Photogr
7、aphs by Omar Victor Diop78|DAWN OF WHITE MINORITYThe demographic changes rippling?among some whites.By Michele Norris Photographs by Gillian Laub100|THE STOP?-?By Michael A.Fletcher Photographs by Wayne Lawrence14|STREETS IN HIS NAMEMore than a thousand streets across the world bear Rev.Martin Luthe
8、r King,Jr.s?civil rights icons values and teachings?By Wendi C.Thomas 118|A PLACE OF THEIR OWNHistorically black colleges are seeing a surge in enrollment and activism.By Clint Smith Photographs by Nina Robinson?DIVERSITY IN AMERICAThis year National Geographic?multimedia coverage of racial,ethnic,a
9、nd religious groups and examine their changing roles in 21st-century life.THE SERIES WILL INCLUDE:MUSLIMS In the United States,near-ly 3.5 million Muslims from some 75 countries are?and opposition.LATINOS Latinos in the United States come from many?percent of the population,theyre the nations larges
10、t minority group.ASIAN AMERICANS?force in medicine,technol-ogy,and business.Today theyre playing increas-ingly prominent roles in?some of the 120,000 Japanese U.S.citizens incarcerated during World War II.NATIVE AMERICANSTheir culture at times erased or appropriated,?the marginalization theyve endur
11、ed.THE RACE ISSUE? STOPFor a report on drivers experiences of?National Geographic col-?website that explores the intersection?was a reporter at the Washington Post?Supreme Discomfort:The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas.?-?-?STREETS IN HIS NAME?of the website?SKIN DEEP?writer at the New Yorker?book i
12、s The Sixth Extinction:An Un-natural History.SKIN DEEP?took photos of nine-?for the Geographics?WHAT DIVIDES US?Us and Them:The Science of Identity,?instinct to separate?WHAT DIVIDES US?who has worked for National Geographic?A PLACE OF THEIR OWN?-?Counting Descent,?-?A PLACE OF THEIR OWN?-?A PLACE O
13、F THEIR OWN?-?tell real stories of real?WHITE AMERICA?The Grace of Silence,?WHITE AMERICA?drew on?Southern Rites.RESISTANCE,REIMAGINED?RESISTANCE,REIMAGINED?writes a series of es-?that appears on the?New York Times.HALLOWED EARTH?America Inside Out With Katie Couric?|CONTRIBUTORSSEE THE CAT SHE WAS
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15、EDITOR|RACEIt is November 2,1930,and National Geographic has sent a reporter and a photographer to cover a magnificent occasion:the crowning of Haile Selassie,King of Kings of Ethiopia,Conquer-ing Lion of the Tribe of Judah.There are trumpets,incense,priests,spear-wielding warriors.The story runs 14
16、,000 words,with 83 images.If a ceremony in 1930 honoring a black man had taken place in America,in-stead of Ethiopia,you can pretty much guarantee there wouldnt have been a story at all.Even worse,if Haile Selassie had lived in the United States,he would almost certainly have been denied entry to our lectures in segregated Washing-ton,D.C.,and he might not have been allowed to be a National Geographic member.According to Robert M.Poole,who wrote Explorers House:National Geographic and the World
