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“A University of Toronto honours student applying for a job at Queen’s Park will receive an apology from the government after he was referred to as a “ghetto dude” in an email from a part-time contract employee in the cabinet office.”
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“Join your fellow progressive Asian Pacific Americans from throughout the Midwest as we engage in a Saturday training led by Parag Mehta, Director of Training at the Democratic National Committee, along with filmmaker Eric Byler”
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What is the freaking deal with Jews and hip-hop? Jewish-American Jason Tanz, whom I interviewed on episode 65 of Addicted to Race, gets to the bottom of it through a conversation with his Italian-American wife.
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“In the case of South Asians, she says, it’s one of a culture that is oppressive of women. ‘Cultural explanations keep coming up because they’re easy…’”
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Blackface lives on.
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” the number of non-Native people operating as medicine men and shaman – and often charging for their services – has only grown despite opposition from traditional elders, groups and Native activists.”
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“The Black Laguna BeachAnd other new BET shows that joust with race and class.” Oddly enough, the story doesn’t mention Hot Ghetto Mess.
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“Spielberg must also figure out what to do about Darfur. That may not seem to make sense at a glance but it does in light of his role as an artistic adviser to the Chinese for the ‘08 Olympics.”
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“I really believe that if you’re going to write about the food in the South and you don’t write about race, you’re leaving out a good part of the story. Even if you’re at the opposite end of the political spectrum, you need to find a way to get at that be
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“what’s unfortunate about Aaron’s latest turn in the public eye is that he has been reduced to a sportswriter’s cheap trope. The great slugger’s dignity is of interest only insofar as it can be picked up by the likes of George Will and swung in the genera
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“Again, Carter displays great ambivalence about whether he wants to write a mystery novel at all, particularly an African-American one. He disregards most of the qualities that have made African-American detective fiction singular and pleasurable. “
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“The Federal Emergency Management Agency has suppressed warnings from its own Gulf coast field workers since the middle of 2006 about suspected health problems that may be linked to elevated levels of formaldehyde gas released in FEMA-provided trailers, l
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“Hilary Duff’s current music video “Stranger”, an Orientalist’s wetdream come to life-that bizarre fusion of all Arabian, North African and Indian cultural elements into a unified vision of the overly-sexualized “Exotic East”
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“Games are an ancient form of global diplomacy, but Cass Tech High School calculus teacher Maurice El-Amin leads Detroit teenagers into a sophisticated niche of the gaming world that depends on brains not brawn.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
LM wrote:
That Slate article on BET’s new shows does briefly mention “Hot Ghetto Mess” — with the context that it also hits on class issues.
Posted 23 Jul 2007 at 7:03 am ¶
Sharanya wrote:
Jason Tanz’s conversation with his wife makes for fascinating reading.
And the multiple make-up thing was interesting. But someone with a less distinct smile might have been an even better model. Her smile, in the shots in which she did smile, gave her away (as did the inconsistent blackface when she was wearing it of course, of course).
Posted 23 Jul 2007 at 8:02 am ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
Oops you’re right LM. They do mention HGM in passing in that last paragraph.
Posted 23 Jul 2007 at 8:23 am ¶