Trans-racial Casting Gone Awry – reappropriate
“for Angelina Jolie to don brownface in order to play a person of colour is to fit into a history of racial makeup used by White actors to not only caricature the real-life “inspirations” but to deny actors of colour jobs in Hollywood…”
(tags: celebrities hollywood actors movies blackface)

Live-Blogging Survivor: Cook [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
That title sounds like a Gershwin song, huh?
Okay, I’ve lived in New York City for over 11 years now and am just as jaded and indifferent to celebrity spotting as the next person.
I walked past Oprah on the street just last week. I once had separate sightings of Dave Chappelle (pre-Chappelle Show [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
As we’ve noted on Racialicious, Dave Mays and Benzino – the disgraced owners of The Source magazine who were recently forced out, are launching a new weekly hip hop magazine. The folks at Idolator imagine what the first cover might look like. Funny stuff.

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Okay, I’m going to blatantly recycle Angry Asian Man’s material here. Since he says it best, I’ll leave you with his words:
10.06.06
I saw this commercial months ago, but kept forgetting to write about it… Basically, it’s David Carradine continuing to cash in on public perception that he is [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I stumbled across this gem on YouTube the other day. It’s an old episode of the Maury show where they do a paternity test to prove what everyone in the audience already thinks: there’s no way this white man can be the father of this mixed-looking child. It’s depressing that to much [...]

The Source Sex Trial Day 1 – SOHH.com
The gory details of Dave Mays and Raymond “Benzino” Scott’s Source Magazine are coming out as former EIC Kim Osorio’s sexual harrassment trial against them gets underway. Apparently, Benzino bragged of sexcapades With Lil Kim, Foxy Brown & Trina. Oh I’m s
(tags: magazines hiphop gender)

Coke tries Latino marketing [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I spotted this on the Best Week Ever blog awhile back but finally got around to watching it this weekend and it’s hilarious. Click here to watch a video mashup of the cast from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street performing N.W.A.’s “F**k the Police.”
By the way, do you all know that [...]

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
Every Friday afternoon we sum up the week’s best posts from New Demographic’s various projects. Here we go!
Race Changers
a community of people working towards an anti-racist future, one week at a time

Assignment 2 – Stereotypes and You: “Was there a time that you made a generalization and were proved [...]

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
Our next Addicted to Race live call-in show will happen this Tuesday, October 17 at 10 pm Eastern U.S. time. Make sure you mark your calendars!
We’ll be discussing the dangers of positive stereotypes. Why are we so quick to agree with positive stereotypes about our ethnic or racial group? [...]

Red flag – NASCAR – Yahoo! Sports
Thanks Luke! “NASCAR must continue to attract new fans in fresh, more diverse markets, many of whom view the Confederate flag as a symbol of racism and oppression. Yet NASCAR doesn’t want to alienate its loyal base…”
(tags: sports history racism)

Sticky Fingers – Page Six
Ewwww! “Quentin Tarantino…was joined at the [...]

by Jen Chau
And if you do, here’s a shirt for you. Thanks to Ani for the heads-up. It’s a nice follow-up to the milk bottle shirt that we loved to hate a little while back.
Note the description: yay for different-raced babies?! Gee, I guess interracial baby-making is still kitschy, huh?
Girls, do you [...]

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new project, Anti-Racist Parent. Please head on over to check it out! Anti-Racist Parent is a blog for parents who are committed to raising children with an anti-racist outlook. If you’re a parent who is tired of having your child learn [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove

Angry Asian Man thinks this ad is racist. (”Why can’t Asians just eat a frickin’ Whopper like everyone else? Why do they have to slither like a snake, and do idiotic kung fu stuff?”) But I’m on the fence with this one. What do you think?

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
No wonder this season sucks so much. The writers of America’s Next Top Model are on strike:
Who are we? We are the writers of America’s Next Top Model. We are the people who turn hundreds of hours of footage into engaging episodes of model-drama. We are the shows biggest fans. We are [...]

by guest contributor Nina
So on Monday I actually watched the Tyra show (which I never do I swear!) and I have to say, it was quite awful. Sure she focused on interracial dating, but other than having people in the audience stand up and verbalize their prejudices towards interracial couples on the stage, and have [...]