Half of all children are below average, and teachers can do only so much for them – OpinionJournal
Thanks mtevc! “Our ability to improve the academic accomplishment of students in the lower half of the distribution of intelligence is severely limited…We can hope to raise his grade. But teaching him more vocabulary words…will not open up [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’m a bit late drawing attention to this because of my recent hosting woes, but you should definitely check out the 8th Erace Racism Carnival, hosted this month by Ariah Fine at Trying to Follow. Plenty of links to excellent posts around the blogosphere.

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 56) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen is joined by guest co-host Jennifer Fang in this super-sized episode. Jennifer blogs at Reappropriate primarily about issues dealing with Asian American feminism and race activism. She is [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
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by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Last week, the Atlanta police took a SWAT team to raid the offices of DJ Drama, one of the top mixtape producers in the industry. He and his partner Cannon were held without bail, and the police seized 81,000 CDs, as well as their recording equipment. The raid is speculated to have [...]

Class Divide in Chinese-Americans’ Charity – New York Times
Hat tip to Angry Asian Man. “Ms. Kee worries about a different kind of disconnect: a divide between the explosive growth of Chinese-American wealth and the unmet needs of a new generation of Chinese immigrants who have streamed to the city since the 1990s
(tags: chinese class immigration)

Books [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Update: Lyonside totally called it. They just announced that Washington entered some kind of rehab. Um… for what, exactly? This story just gets more and more bizarre.
By now I’m sure you’ve heard about the controversy surrounding the actor Isaiah Washington, who plays Dr. Preston Burke on the hit show Grey’s Anatomy. [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
The UK’s Celebrity Big Brother reality show has made international headlines because of the racism endured by Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at the hands of her housemates, particularly a woman named Jade Goody, who has since been evicted. (Thanks to Rochelle, Vandia, Rob and Rachel for the tips!)
From Wikipedia:
As of 16 January [...]

Lives – David Matthews – New York Times
Thanks Delia! “The black kids reminded me of home, but the white kids reminded me of myself, the me I saw staring back in the mirror. On that day, I came to believe that if I had said I was black, I would have had to spend the [...]

by guest contributor Jeff Yang

Hot on the heels of that whole Rosie mess, some of you may have heard of the flap over the Daily Princetonian’s publication of a parody op-ed, supposedly from a student named “Lian Ji,” in their annual “joke edition” of the student paper. Here’s a brief excerpt from “Princeton University Is Racist Against Me, I Mean, Non-Whites”:

Hi Princeton! Remember me? I so good at math and science. Perfect 2400 SAT score. Ring bells? Just in cases, let me refresh your memories. I the super smart Asian. Princeton the super dumb college, not accept me. I get angry and file a federal civil rights complaint against Princeton for rejecting my application for admission.

And yeah, the spelling and broken English goes on. And on. And on. Along with references to doing laundry, working railroads, dog eating, etc.

That said, it wasn’t the op-ed alone that goosed my gander–it was the post-publication spin. Faced with a firestorm of controversy over the supposed satire, the Daily Princetonian’s Managing Board (who collaboratively wrote the op-ed) responded with an editor’s note of surpassing arrogance:

Undocumented immigrant fashion show – VivirLatino
“In liberal Barcelona, Spain, one of the country’s top designers, Antonio Miró, has decided to incorporate the topic of immigration into his appearance at a top fashion show, using undocumented immigrants from Senegal as the models”
(tags: immigration fashion)

New Study Suggests Diversity Makes Companies Better – Rachel’s Tavern
“Those companies that have [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined the BlogHer team as contributing editor for their section on Race, Ethnicity & Culture! You can read my first post here.
BlogHer is the leading guide to women bloggers. Its mission is to create opportunities for women bloggers to pursue exposure, education, and community.
By [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
As you may have noticed, Racialicious was down for about 3 days. I won’t bore you with the technical details, but it got really ugly.
I do want to thank my little brother from another mother Philip Arthur Moore for his detective work and his help in fixing the problem. Racialicious should load [...]

by guest contributor Sylvia, originally published at The Anti-Essentialist Conundrum
At first, I absolutely refused to see Freedom Writers. It looked like yet another feel good white-teacher-saves-colored-students with-much-rejoicing in-the-land-of-Nod movie. I mean, the narrative is another twist of the American Dream: ignore the circumstances around you and focus on yourself, and you’ll poise yourself for success [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
This is the last in my series breaking down the top trends in race and pop culture of 2006. If you missed it, check out Monday’s trends 10 through 8 and yesterday’s trends 7 through 4 . Here’s the final list:
10. Race-swapping undercover experiments
9. Hipster racism
8. The continuing obsession with interracial relationships
7. [...]