Donor tries to defuse N-word controversy – MSNBC.com
“Amid outrage from students, school leaders and legislators over his use of the N-word, the former chairman of the Roger Williams University board said Wednesday he wants his name removed from its law school.”
(tags: n-word education racism)

Amy Goodman Calls On Gov. Blanco To Pardon The Jena Six – [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
What do you think of this UNICEF ad campaign currently running in Germany?
According to the blog Black Women in Europe (where you can also see the other 3 ads in the series), the translation is as follows:
The headline translates “This Ad-campaign developped pro bono by the agency Jung von Matt/Alster shows four [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
WTF? Did this seriously run on BET as the video creators claim?
Hat tip to TAN.

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
For any Aussie peeps out there, this Sunday night at 9 pm I’ll be on John Safran’s radio show “Sunday Night Safran: Religions, Politics & Hoochies” on Triple J, ABC’s youth radio station.
Those of you not in Australia who are interested in hearing the interview can download it as a podcast. It’ll [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse, originally published at The Coup Magazine
Update: Looks like folks in Chicago can take a “Ghetto Bus Tour”
Tourism provides a way for people to escape, to shed their suits for bikinis and shorts, their dress shoes for flip flops, and to replace stress with fun. What’s often left out of [...]

Update: Got a working video! Thanks tstorm!
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I love me some “So You Think You Can Dance” but this scene had me scratching my head. Um, ok Lauren.
(Hat tip to Lauren from Stereohyped for the tip.)

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Unk’s “Walk It Out” has been one of my secret guilty pleasures for some time.
(That, and Pretty Ricky’s “On the Hotline.” Any song with a chorus that goes “So Hornaaaaaaaaaaaay!” is kinda awesome in that R. Kelly 12-Play way. And the fact that none of them are remotely pretty makes it [...]

Transformers: Chock full of racial stereotypes? – BlogHer
“what is most interesting is that by doing a search in Google, a lot of other people – and not just people of colour, by the way – have also commented on the racial stereotyping in the movie. So it’s not just black paranoia….yipee!”
(tags: movies racism stereotypes)

‘The War’ [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
People sure love to display their racism proudly on their T-shirts. Last June we told you about Threadless’s questionable milk bottle miscegenation shirt, and now they’re back with another racist shirt called “Flied Lice.” (thanks Gina for the tip!)
Ew! A yucky fly on the rice! How unhygienic! And “Fried Crap with Spicy [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Last November, Jenn at Reappropriate wrote a razor-sharp post describing the way in which Michael Richards took no responsibility for his words, but instead, acted like he was bitten by the racist fairy:
According to Seinfeld and Richards, who are both “mystified by what happened”, it’s like some Blackface Tinkerbell crawled up Richards’ [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 75) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen interviews Laura Martinez about multicultural marketing and the ways in which it can reinforce essentialist notions about racial or ethnic groups. This episode features the song “Something Different” [...]

by guest contributor dnA, originally published at Too Sense
I’ve been in my share of fights. It’s something that happens when you’re a young racially ambiguous kid thrust into the public school system in Washington D.C. A few of them I still have scars from.
The most consistent theme in my many trips to the Principal’s office [...]

The Apu travesty – Comment is free
“”Thank you, come again!” Sadly, that catchphrase…are such common ethnic slurs in America, actor Kal Penn reclaimed it with bitter irony in the hit comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. Among desis, at least, it was met with applause.”
(tags: stereotypes desi tv asian cartoon)

How Racism Hurts the [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson
The name Matthew Lesko is somewhat unknown in DC.
However, if you say “the guy in the question mark suits with the free money commerical” most people will remember the crazy informercials.
A staple of late night and daytime TV, Lesko’s commericals feature him clad head to toe in an eye-popping suit [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be one of the speakers on a panel discussion next Monday, July 23rd at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MoCA). If you’re in the NYC area, I hope you’ll come by!
It’s going to be a great discussion on Asian-American media activism, and they’ve put [...]