by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I spotted this item in one of my ego feeds, and was fascinated to find that this blogger named Heloise has decided for me what my race is. Ah, it’s fun to be mixed isn’t it? Everybody’s opinion about your race matters, except your own.
#15 — May 28, 2007 @ 15:28PM — [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Well, the #1 search result is not safe for work, that’s for sure.
So the question is: why are people so fascinated by interracial sex?
Let me tell you a quick story.
I was at a conference a couple of years ago and during one of the breaks, a man came up to me and [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse
I was originally going to write a full article about all the patronizing, classist, and racist things Tyra & the Gang (T&tG) said on the most recently aired America’s Next Top Model Cycle 8, but our friend Malena Amusa over at Race Wire beat me to it :- )
So I [...]

Black Models Have Flawed Genes – Stereohyped
Yikes – Stefano Pilato of YSL says: “My fit model was a black model,” he says. “When I wanted to translate what I put on her, it was a disaster. It would need 13 times more work in the atelier to modify it to put on a more Caucasian [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’ve been following the media’s handling of race in its coverage of Barack Obama’s presidential bid very closely over the last few months. But right now I’m particularly riveted by the media coverage of his wife, Michelle Obama. Race, gender, and feminism are intersecting in fascinating ways. Here are some highlights.
As my [...]

Cops: Sikh Student Victim Of Hate Crime – cbs2.com
Hat tip to HighJive. “The older youth, Umair Ahmed, 17, violated Harpal’s religious beliefs by forcibly removing the sobbing victim’s turban and cutting his waist-length locks in a Queens high school bathroom, authorities said.”
(tags: hatecrime religion asianamerican)

Black Culture Beyond Hip-Hop – washingtonpost.com
Thx Latoya & ampha. “Like neurotics [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Did any of you catch Friday’s episode of the Oprah show? It was titled “Children Ashamed of the Way They Look” and included interviews with:

Kiri Davis, the young filmmaker who created the phenomenal short film A Girl Like Me
Grey’s Anatomy star Chandra Wilson about her own views on beauty growing up and [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse, originally published at The Coup Magazine
“It was completely trivial” said a spokeswoman for Iberia Airlines’ new ad. I suppose that should be expected, but it never ceases to amaze me that some people consider the degradation of historically oppressed groups as “trivial,” “fun,” or “just a joke.” Maybe that’s [...]

There’s laughter at ‘Ocean’s Thirteen’ news conference, but seriously … – Los Angeles Times
Thx Monk Troy. “a Hong Kong reporter said that the Chinese are not thrilled with the way in which Qin’s characte…has been portrayed throughout the series. Soderbergh was visibly shocked when the reporter asked why he is made to seem like a [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, I decided to give my overly analytical brain a break and delve into some light reading.
I love to read, and as a result of being willing to read anything and everything, I have picked up a few interesting habits.
Case in point being my affinity for [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
What do you folks think of this ad? (Hat tip to HighJive) I’ve been seeing it on phone booths around New York City, and for some reason it vaguely bothers me. Maybe because it reminds me of John Singleton’s Baby Boy and the idea that African-American men are infantilized by society and [...]

TOWARDS THE END OF AUNT JEMIMA – BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS
“My petition is to implore the Quaker Oats Company to cease its use of Aunt Jemima. For Quaker Oats to start showing the respect to black women that we have more than earned the right to after 400 years of [...]

‘Hate’ columnist Eng arrested in N.Y. for alleged harassment
Thx AAM! “Kenneth Eng, the author of a controversial AsianWeek column that described reasons to “hate” black people, is being held in a New York jail without bail on assault and harassment charges.”
to asianamerican hatespeech

no sleep ’til shanghai and other stuff on dvd – angry asian man
“Todd [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Go check it out over at Angry Black Woman. She has compiled a terrific set of blog posts, grouped by theme:

Writing and Reading
Movies and Television
The Blogosphere
News and Current Events
We, As Individuals

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse
Lily Allen rocks it (kinda), Will Smith used to, and about 8 out of 10 hipster 20-somethings I see every single time I walk into an “up and coming” neighborhood in NYC seems to have filled their closets with it. Door-knocker earrings, yellow gold chains, hoodies with loud neon prints, [...]