I guess everyone has to jump on the bandwagon. Someone is making a fortune handing out whips. Self flagellation is in, I guess. I never thought of NG as being racist. They just produced high quality nudey pix.
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National Geographic acknowledges past racist coverage
Letter titled, 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It'
- Associated Press
National Geographic acknowledged on Monday that it covered the world through a racist lens for generations, with its magazine portrayals of bare-breasted women and naive brown-skinned tribesmen as savage, unsophisticated and unintelligent.
"We had to own our story to move beyond it," editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg told The Associated Press in an interview about the yellow-bordered magazine's April issue, which is devoted to race.
National Geographic first published its magazine in 1888. An investigation conducted last fall by University of Virginia photography historian John Edwin Mason showed that until the 1970s, it virtually ignored people of colour in the United States who were not domestics or labourers, and it reinforced repeatedly the idea that people of colour from foreign lands were "exotics, famously and frequently unclothed, happy hunters, noble savages — every type of cliché."
The rest here.
National Geographic acknowledges past racist coverage - Technology & Science - CBC News
I hope that they don't stop studying other peoples of the world. How are teens like Flossy going to learn about anatomy?
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National Geographic acknowledges past racist coverage
Letter titled, 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It'
- Associated Press
National Geographic acknowledged on Monday that it covered the world through a racist lens for generations, with its magazine portrayals of bare-breasted women and naive brown-skinned tribesmen as savage, unsophisticated and unintelligent.
"We had to own our story to move beyond it," editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg told The Associated Press in an interview about the yellow-bordered magazine's April issue, which is devoted to race.
National Geographic first published its magazine in 1888. An investigation conducted last fall by University of Virginia photography historian John Edwin Mason showed that until the 1970s, it virtually ignored people of colour in the United States who were not domestics or labourers, and it reinforced repeatedly the idea that people of colour from foreign lands were "exotics, famously and frequently unclothed, happy hunters, noble savages — every type of cliché."
The rest here.
National Geographic acknowledges past racist coverage - Technology & Science - CBC News
I hope that they don't stop studying other peoples of the world. How are teens like Flossy going to learn about anatomy?
