by guest contributors Tripmaster Monkey editors, originally published at Tripmaster Monkey
The Tao is up, according to TMM’s Asian Image Index. Leading the rally were a number of undervalued Asian male stocks, which outperformed Main Street’s expectations. Here’s a round-up of the biggest movers.
SOLE SURVIVOR
Though “Survivor: Cook Islands” was off to a controversial start (with teams [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
First came Green Card energy drink. Now comes a sandwich called “The Illegal.”
Apparently, there’s a deli across the street from New York City’s Citizenship and Immigration Services headquarters that has begun selling a sandwich by that name:
The “Illegal” — Sausalito turkey, Monterey Jack cheese, lettuce, tomato and a jalapeño-fi red guacamole spread [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
This new film, Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story, from Jane Campion (The Piano) looks interesting. Here’s the synopsis:

JAPAN,1977. A dark, lonely road leads to the windswept shores. This is the remarkable story of a 13-year-old Japanese girl abducted on her way home from school by North Korean spies. For 20 years, her [...]

David Duke doesn’t belong on U.S. TV news – MarketWatch
“Why did CNN and MSNBC give air time to David Duke? What purpose did it serve the viewers? Does American cable television news have ANY standards any more, not to mention common sense?”
(tags: racism tv journalism)

A Chance to Help Mainstream Media Get the Story Right about [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
If so, consider submitting to the Erase Racism Carnival this month! Today is the deadline, so please submit your posts ASAP! Here are the details:
Who:
Bloggers with posts about combating racism, specifically in mixed-race families for this month
What:
Erase Racism Carnival. Christina is looking for recent posts regarding what it’s like being part [...]

by 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.
Carmen is joined by guest co-host Kristen Chase in this episode. Kristen is the author of the popular blog Motherhood Uncensored and [...]

by guest contributor Ansel
On December 14, the NBC show “The Office” aired its Christmas episode titled “A Benihana Christmas,” written by Jennifer Celotta. As a big fan of the show, I was interested by the previews for the episode which seemed to include a joke about two Asian women looking alike. So would “The Office,” [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Every Friday afternoon we sum up the week’s best posts from New Demographic’s various projects. Here we go!
ADDICTED TO RACE
a podcast about America’s obsession with race

Episode 51: Carmen is joined by guest co-host Karen Walrond in this episode. They discuss the cop who made two black men rap for him to get [...]

by guest contributor Jenn Fang, originally published at Reappropriate
When I first saw the video of Rosie O’Donnell unleashing a long string of guttural “chings” and “chongs” on The View last week, I was upset and offended, but thought it was another in a long line of racial celebrity gaffes that would no doubt engender some [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’m working on a post right now summarizing the big trends we saw in the intersection of race and pop culture in 2006. I have a bunch of ideas already, but I wanted to throw this open to all of you as well.
What did you think were some of the [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove

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Yesterday’s episode of Pacific Time on KQED featured two commentaries on James Kim. One from the actor Chris Tashima, star of the upcoming Eric Byler film, Americanese, and one from me.
You can download the MP3 here or click the button below to listen. The commentaries start around the 20-minute mark.
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by Carmen Van Kerckhove
There’s a self-funded documentary causing some buzz online. The documentary, “Black Hair,” is by a white filmmaker named Aron Ranen.
It positions itself as an expose revealing that “Koreans have come to control virtually every aspect of the multi-billion dollar, black hair care industry, from manufacturing to distribution to retail sales, while simultaneously [...]

Mayme Agnew Clayton – African-Americans – History – Report – New York Times
“Painstakingly collected over a lifetime by Mayme Agnew Clayton…the massive collection of books, films, documents and other precious pieces of America’s past has remained essentially hidden for decades, most of it piled from floor to ceiling in a rams
(tags: africanamerican black history)

Borat! Apocalypto! [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
What is up with our Asian American leaders? First Guy Aoki hands Adam “Ching Chong” Carolla a yellow pass, now John Liu is accepting Rosie “I still think it was funny” O’Donnell’s apology. I just got this in my inbox:
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: John Choe
Date: Dec 14, 2006 2:37 PM
Subject: [JohnLiuNYCCouncil] CM [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
What a freakin’ nightmare. As you might have noticed this blog was down practically all day. My host had to reboot my databases or something like that (I have no idea) and so my last two posts have completely disappeared.
Update: Oh looks like some comments got deleted too, so sorry folks. Please [...]