by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Update: Be sure to check out the excellent analyses by Claire Light and Philip Arthur Moore.
Blacks hate us. Every Asian who has ever come across them knows that they take almost every opportunity to hurl racist remarks at us…
Contrary to media depictions, I would argue that blacks are weak-willed. They are the […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Did you know that I send out a monthly email newsletter with updates on New Demographic’s many projects? You can check out the latest newsletter here.
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by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Sorry for the downtime, everyone! And thank you to everyone who wrote in because they couldn’t get their daily fix of Racialicious! I won’t bore you with the details, but once again, my hero Philip Arthur Moore bailed me out of this one. So many thanks to him!

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
There’s a web site called Hot Ghetto Mess (contains some NSFW pics). I’m not sure how to describe the site - it’s basically a collection of photos of ridiculous-looking (almost all black) people. People with bad hairdos, questionable fashion, etc.
It’s just a web site - harmless enough, right? Well, it turns out […]

A movie record that leaves you reeling - CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Hat tip to Highjive. “Hollywood movies have played a leading role in the stereotyping of African Americans…So, on Oscar weekend, I thought it might be useful to compose of a list of Tinseltown’s Top Ten Racist Movies.”
(tags: hollywood stereotypes movies)

Juan Gonzalez: How easily he forgets racism […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 61) 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 Mat Johnson in this episode. Born and raised in Philly, Mat Johnson grew up in the Germantown and Mount Airy sections of the […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I just read in Ad Age about a new ad campaign by NBC Universal-owned Hispanic cable channel Mun2, which asks its target audience, bilingual, bicultural young Latinos, whether they are becoming “too gringo.” You can watch all three spots here.
In one spot, two young Latino men operating an ice-cream truck pursue girls […]

Amazing Grace - Movies - Review - New York Times
“Amazing Grace,” a prettified take on the life and times of the 18th-century reformer William Wilberforce, carries a strong whiff of piety….helped bring about the end of the slave trade in the British Empire and then slavery itself.”
(tags: slavery history movies)

Hardaway Banished for Anti-Gay Tirade - […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Thanks to bertie and Philip Arthur Moore for the tips on these!
From Debra Dickerson’s appearance on Thursday, February 8th on The Colbert Report:

From the February 10th episode of Saturday Night Live. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson rate Obama on the blackness scale. (I love the “we are all delicious hot beverages” line!)

Korean Men Use Brokers to Find Brides in Vietnam - New York Times
“More and more South Korean men are finding wives outside of South Korea, where a surplus of bachelors, a lack of marriageable Korean partners and the rising social status of women have combined to shrink the domestic market for the marriage-minded male”
(tags: asian […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
The latest racist campus party comes to us from California’s Santa Clara University, where students decided to um, honor their Latino brothers and sisters by throwing a”South of the Border Party.” Students dressed up as janitors, female gangsters and pregnant women. (Hat tip to Rachel and thanks to Susan too!.) From the […]

WP: Eddie Murphy’s plus-size offense - MSNBC.com
Thanks Eric R! ‘”I find it vaguely irritating how Eddie Murphy is given free [rein] to depict the cliched, overbearing, domineering black woman without any complaints,” wrote a blogger on Salon.com. “Hell, I’m white, and even I’m offended by this depictio
(tags: africanamerican black beauty movies bodyimage)

Debates within black community […]

by guest contributor Latoya Peterson
Robin Givhan, the fashion editor for The Washington Post, frequently peppers her columns and blogs with a unique perspective on how to interpret the passing fads of the fickle fashion industry. Last Friday’s column was no exception.
Titled “Rounding off Their Figures,” Givhan discusses the emergence of a new trend: fuller figured […]

Some in Chino Hills nervous about ethnic shift exemplified by Asian supermarket
Scary Asian alert! “Some Chino Hills residents said they worry the store’s arrival could lead to a concentration of other Asian-oriented businesses and a proliferation of Asian-language signs and traffic similar to what exists in some Los Angeles County c
(tags: asian asianamerican racism)

Blavers - […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
The Erase Racism Carnival is a collection of blog posts dedicated to creating a world free of racism. The Carnival is published around the 20th of every month.
Check out the latest installment, hosted by Writeous Sister Speaks.
By the way, many of you may not know this, but I’m the first woman of […]