Bearded Spaniard Prof. Forced Off Plane - San Francisco Chronicle
Thanks Tariq! “A Spanish university professor with a long beard and dark complexion said Thursday he was briefly forced off an airliner during a layover on the Spanish island of Mallorca by passengers who feared he was an Islamic terrorist…”
(tags: muslim racialprofiling terrorism)

A suitable boy or […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Tim Wu just wrote a hilariously obsessive column for Slate bemoaning the poor quality of dumplings available in the U.S.
Jen, I feel like this is such a you kind of post. Not only is it about food, but it’s just begging for some of Jen Chau’s patented corny puns.
Dumpling rage, […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’m not sure if this is for real, but according to Vibe Confidential:
Today my homegirl and co-worker, Hot 97 host Angie Martinez spoke to Akon about relationships. Akon, who recently released a single with Eminem, explained that as an African (Ak’ is from a very prominent music family in Senegal) he believes […]

by guest contributor Jeff Yang, SFGate.com columnist and blogger
TWO FOUR SIX EIGHT
THIS IS HOW WE INTEGRATE
And that’s that. Just three episodes into the made-for-media-outrage spectacle of Survivor: Separate But Equal, the tribes have been forcibly bused into a Red Team and Blue Team. The method used to Benettonize the castaways was painfully ordinary–two male captains […]

NAACP Chairman Julian Bond speaks out against homophobia | keithboykin.com
“‘Homophobia is one of the major obstacles to black Americans coming to grips with this disease in the ways that we should,’ he said… He also said the situation would be “immeasurably eased” if more black gay people came out of the closet…”
(tags: africanamerican hiv aids […]

by Jen Chau
This ad campaign for international telecommunications company, Telefonica, seems to try to cash in on the mixed look. A little forced if you ask me.
Fascination with “mixed looks” is definitely something I am over. But it carries on. Can’t wait until everyone catches up and people realize that there are lots of […]

Ex-’Tokyo Rose’ suspect dies in Chicago - Houston Chronicle
“…In 1949, she became the seventh person to be convicted of treason in American history and served six years in prison. But doubts about her possible role as Tokyo Rose later surfaced and she was pardoned by President Gerald Ford in 1977…”
(tags: asianamerican japaneseamerican history)

GOP Campaign Director […]

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode of Addicted to Race is out! If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Click here to launch iTunes and subscribe today, it’s absolutely free.
LAST TUESDAY’S LIVE SHOW
In this episode of Addicted to Race, we share with you the recording of last Tuesday’s […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Remember Miss Cleo from those annoying late-night psychic hotline infomercials back in the late 90s? The one with the really fake Jamaican accent? “Call me now!”
Well, you’re about to. Miss Cleo (real name Youree Dell Cleomili Harris) came out in […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Unfortunately, the resurgence of blackface is a trend we’ve documented extensively here at Racialicious. We’ve spotted the burnt cork on everyone from Kate Moss to Angelina Jolie (arguably), from Dave Chappelle to guests on the Tyra Banks Show, from hipster douchebags to Tokyo Fashion Week models, from white teenagers on YouTube […]

More on Big Mike - kottke.org
(thanks CW!) “…So what you’ve got is a story about rich white people from the American South using religion to justify taking a potentially valuable black man from his natural environment and deciding the course of his life for him…”
(tags: africanamerican caucasian black white adoption magazines)

Teammates: Allen used “N-word” in […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Are you wondering what those little icons are at the bottom of each post? They’re all social bookmarking tools. In order from left to right, they’re icons for del.icio.us, Digg, YahooMyWeb, Furl, Newsvine, Reddit and co.comments.
What is social bookmarking? I would highly recommend checking out Wendy Boswell’s guide on the topic. Here’s […]

‘Slanted Screen’ - documentary about Asian-American men in TV and film
(thanks to Angry Asian Man for this!) Jeff Adachi’s documentary The Slanted Screen, about Asian American men (and the lack thereof) in television and film, will be featured in an industry-only premiere on Thursday, October 5th at the Samuel Goldwyn Theate
(tags: asianamerican asian movies tv)

A […]

by guest contributor Jeff Yang, SFGate.com columnist and blogger

The first taste is always free, right? Then comes the downward spiral of shame and self-destruction. That’s what was running through my mind as I flipped through the recordings on my ever-faithful TiVo toward the second episode of Survivor: Cook Island. I watched the first installment rationalizing that it was for work, every penny goes to my son Hudson’s college fund, yessiree, but episode two? Lurid fascination, no excuses.

It struck me that it felt very much like sneaking a peek at, say, Playboy’s “Girls of the Ivy League” issue. One might reason that you’re just, uh, checking to see if there’s anyone you know in there– HOLY CRAP, THAT’S MY SECOND COUSIN!–but it’s mostly just prurience, isn’t it?

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
Thank you for visiting us here at Racialicious (formerly known as Mixed Media Watch). This is a blog about anything and everything at the intersection of race and pop culture.
So, what’s new?
New Name
Those of you who listen to our podcast, Addicted to Race, probably recognize the name from a […]