by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Last week I urged all of you to vote for Kiri Davis’s short film “A Girl Like Me,” a finalist for CosmoGirl.com’s film contest. The winner will receive a $10,000 scholarship!
Voting ends tomorrow at noon! So please head on over and vote right now! And vote again tomorrow morning!
Last time I checked, […]

by Luke Lee, Racialicious’s sports correspondent
“Dice-K” mania rolls on as the World Baseball Classic MVP wowed the MLB world with his dazzler of a win against the Royals. What’ll be interesting to watch is, as some sports-writers have noted already, that Japan might have a thing or two to teach America about training pitchers (as […]

Kal Penn is qualified to teach at Penn - Daily Pennsylvanian
Hat tip to AAM! “I hope we are smart enough at Penn to be able to distinguish the actor from his roles. He is a working actor in an industry that promotes stereotypes and offers few opportunities for Asian American actors…”
(tags: asianamerican desi actors academia)

American […]

by guest contributor Meera Bowman-Johnson, originally published at Our Kind of Parenting
In the best of times, being black is absolutely beautiful (let the choir say “Amen!”). In the worst of times, it feels something like this:
Three men went to hell.
The devil said to them “You have come to hell, and you must now choose whether […]

Note from Carmen: I’m happy to announce that Jen Chau, my former partner-in-crime at New Demographic, is back in the blogosphere! Check out her new blog, The Time is Always Right. I’m cross-posting one of her recent blog posts here.

by guest contributor Jen Chau
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about community and identity, and […]

Barbara Lippert’s Critique: Uncle Ben’s Problem - Adweek
Hat tip to HighJive! “There’s a tone problem with the print, however, that doesn’t seem to match Ben’s new executive role. It comes across as less CEO-ey and more throwback folksy. Combined with the original portrait, this is a bit unfortunate.”
(tags: advertising africanamerican black slavery)

Don Imus suspended for […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
As you know, comments are moderated on this site according to the regulations here. But if you post a comment and don’t see it approved in a reasonable amount of time (12 to 24 hours), and you’re pretty sure you didn’t violate any of those regulations, it’s possible that your comment got […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I missed this when it was on PBS, so it’s great to catch at least a bit of it on YouTube. Here’s the description:
“Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes” provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. Director Byron Hurt, former star college quarterback, longtime hip-hop fan, and gender […]

10 Things White People Oughta Get Over - Brick Cheney
“1. Ebonics…This happened over 10 years ago. But white people carry on about ebonics like it’s the one communist takeover attempt that actually damn near worked…It never stood a chance in hell. You’ve beaten a dead horse back to life.”
(tags: white race language)

stop the new asian […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove

Woman, 30, posed as teenage boy in sex case - HeraldNet
From Ananser: “30-yr old Vietnamese women pretends to be her own 17-yr old “brother” and is now charged with sex crimes betraying the trust of the family that took her in. Guess which angle the media enjoys more: sex crime, immigrant language […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Bill O’Reilly goes ballistic on Geraldo in this clip. The background from The Raw Story (thanks Tereza for the tip!):
Bill O’Reilly has used the tragedy of the death of two young girls in Virginia Beach, VA, whose car was struck by a drunk driver, to launch an attack on illegal immigrants.
Alfredo Ramos, […]

Imus Creates Firestorm With Rutgers Comments - News Story - WNBC | New York
Thx Kimberly! “Imus started out talking about the Rutgers team as, “some rough girls from Rutgers. They got tattoos,” and then went on to call them “some nappy-headed hos.”
(tags: radio racism africanamerican black athlete)

Calls for end to US repossessions - BBC NEWS
Thx […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson
“Toya is more Asian than Asian people!”
My Chinese-Canadian coworker laughs. I, on the other hand, am chastened. I quickly make an excuse, and withdraw from the conversation.
Now, to some people in my circle, my coworker’s off-the-cuff accolade would have been something to be proud of. Otaku (or anime/manga fans to […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
This is an interesting campaign started by two plus-size models. They are calling for the fashion industry to take concrete steps to rethink dress sizes. (Thanks to Kimberly for the tip!) From the Walk the Catwalk web site:

Diane Pellini and Liis Windischmann have a combined 20 years experience modeling in the plus-size […]

rosie o’donnell’s earlier ching chong moment - angry asian man
Rosie did the ching chong thing earlier this year too. “Some more random ching-chongery thrown out there, spontaneously to cover a verbal flub…”For the feed in China.” Basically, she equates Chinese with nonsensical gibberish. That’s racist! “
(tags: rosie racism tv celebrities asian asianamerican)

How the Right Uses […]