by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’m excited to announce that starting tomorrow, Latoya Peterson will be a special correspondent for Racialicious! She’ll be writing one post per week for the blog, and will also be helping me with some odds and ends behind the scenes. Here’s more about her:
Latoya Peterson has a lot of opinions. Currently on […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove

Thank you to everyone who submitted a post! I’ve grouped the submissions by theme, though naturally there’s plenty of overlap:

Race and Racism in the Media and Pop Culture
Race, Racism and Parenting
Alliance-Building in Fighting Racism
Oppression and Discrimination
White Supremacy and White Privilege

The Erase Racism Carnival is a collection of blog posts dedicated to […]

You must learn - XXLmag.com
“People are putting too much pressure on hip-hop to cure society’s ills. Hip-hop is an art form, and while it certainly gives youth both joy and hope—it’s not going to help them avoid crime unless it can present viable alternatives for income.”
(tags: hiphop education)

Being Black on Mad Ave: Young and Old […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I decided to add two more points to the Racialicious commenting guidelines I posted when I turned comment moderation on. From now on, if you use either of these tactics in your comment, it will be deleted. Why? Because I’m bored with reading the same old drivel and life is just too […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 64) 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 L’Heureux Lewis, who is also known as Dumi. Dumi is completing his PhD in Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. […]

by guest contributor Sabriel, a self-described struggling small fry in the Australian entertainment industry, originally published at Please Smile for the Camera
In case you haven’t noticed, *cough cough*, I’m of mixed decent and I look more or less like a strange looking asian girl. (Read as: I’m not a White-Australian Sydney Dweller.)
I could give a […]

Evolution of a Feminist Daughter - Rebecca Walker - New York Times
“The most incendiary notion in “Baby Love” may be that, for Ms. Walker, being a stepparent or adoptive parent involves a lesser kind of love than the love for a biological child.”
(tags: parenting race adoption mixedrace)

Viacom to Bulk Up Network’s Budget For […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Hilarious! More Bobby Lee goodness. “You know that deep inside you want ethnic love!” LOL!

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Today is the deadline!
Have you written a blog post recently related to race or racism? If so, consider submitting it for March’s Erase Racism Carnival, which I am hosting right here at Racialicious!
The Erase Racism Carnival is a collection of blog posts dedicated to creating a world free of racism. The Carnival […]

Racism issue raised in USC players’ Web page - Los Angeles Times
Thx Geraly! “It started as an inside joke — good-natured racial banter in the privacy of the locker room between a black assistant coach and a group of white players on the USC football team…He called them the “White Nation.” It was a tribute.”
(tags: […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
It’s official. Angelina Jolie’s rumored Vietnamese adoption has gone through, and there are pics of the new kid as well.
Interesting that Jolie felt the need to rename a three year-old, who presumably already answers to his own damn name, Pham Quang Sang. Not for long though! Jolie has decided that from now […]

Black Intermarriage Patterns - Rachel’s Tavern
New study on intermarriage patterns. Findings include: “West Indians and Africans will be more likely than African Americans and Puerto Rican non-Whites to form interracial unions with Whites.”
(tags: interracialrelationships marriage race ethnicity)

TV’s wifey fetish - Pop + Politics
“Certainly there’s nothing wrong with being someone’s wife or girlfriend. But by making […]

by guest contributor Pat Miller, originally published at Token Minorities

Wired’s Chris Kohler had an interesting piece over at Game | Life a while back about the race of player characters, centered around a NeoGAF forum discussion regarding the race of Jade from Beyond Good and Evil:
From the article:
Ellis, a self-defined “activist”, is writing this article […]

by guest contributor Adina Ba
It’s not everyday that Westerners are shown images of Africa beyond the stereotype. It’s not everyday that African filmmakers reach out to an international audience with a modern debate of large-scale African problems. In his fourth feature, Abderrahmane Sissako has created a two hour film that brings the African problem to […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’d never heard of this until I spotted the YouTube video on ExpatJane’s blog, Where The Hell Am I? It’s apparently from a 1968 TV special in which Bill Cosby took a look at the differences between the drawings made by young black children and young white children.
While I see what […]