by Carmen Van Kerckhove
As if the preceding post wasn’t enough proof that the use of nooses as racial threats is on the rise, today comes news that someone hung a noose on the office door of a black professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College. And since this happened in a building accessible only with […]

by guest contributor Jack Turner, originally published at Jack and Jill Politics
When bellbottoms came back, I was ok with it. When 1980s style jeans and hair made a comeback, I was annoyed, but I let it go. However, it seems we’ve got the return of a much more powerful and painful symbol of the past […]

Race & Gender: We’re Not Gonna Take It - Newsweek Business - MSNBC.com
“Our leaders will rise up in unison against Don Imus…Yet they remain silent when Isiah Thomas says it’s less offensive for a black man to call a black woman “bitch” than it is for a white man.”
(tags: misogyny sexism africanamerican black)

White conservative says […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Fatemeh Fakhraie
Jon Hemming for Reuters reports that a city in Afghanistan has its own answer to America’s Next Top Model. The news agency boasts that the television show “is breaking boundaries and revealing the beauty under the burqa.” (Thanks to NayLah for the tip!)
But before going on to totally ignore which […]

by guest contributor Thea, originally published at Shameless Blog
Have you ever woken up one morning and suddenly realised that an old and cherished friend doesn’t care about you or anything you represent, and actually either ignores or caricatures your existence?
Well, neither have I. But too many times I’ve realised that a director (or musician or […]

Gentrification: The displacement of poor women and people of color. The raising of rents and eradification of a single, poor and working-class women from neighborhoods once considered unsavory by people who didn’t live there. The demolition of housing projects. A money-driven process in which landowners and developers push people (in this case, many of them […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A real banner ad from an online ringtone company called mobileringdownloads.com. (Thanks Brian!)
Bone through the nose and all. I haven’t seen such blatant racist imagery since my Tin Tin-reading days in Belgium.

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
This is too funny! I assume it’s from an old SNL skit - anyone know when this came out? I hadn’t seen it before. (Thanks Molly!)

Maybe Clarence Thomas Should Ask Dubya How He Feels About His Yale Degree - Too Sense
“the various myths about affirmative action, such as the idea of hordes of unqualified minorities getting access to jobs and education they don’t deserve is actually more accurately applied to privileged white students.”
(tags: affirmativeaction racism race)

h&m: the new a&f? - […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Karen just alerted me to this gem of a straight-to-DVD movie, coming out this week. Here’s the description:
Meet Renato: a pasta-loving, Dean Martin-worshipping Italian-American living la dolce vita and working at his papa’s Little Italy deli. Until his African-American birth parents show up, claiming he’s their long-lost son Leroy. Now that he’s […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I have no words, really. Hat tip to HighJive.

by guest contributor Manish, originally published at Ultrabrown
Nike has just released a sneaker line for Native Americans called — no joke — the ‘Air Native’ (via Boing Boing):
American Indians have a much wider and taller foot than the average shoe accommodates. The average shoe width of men and women measured was three width sizes larger […]

by guest contributor HighJive, originally published at MultiCultClassics
A couple of weeks ago, Alberto J. Ferrer wrote a piece for Ad Age entitled “Please Hold the Sombreros: Making Your Creative ‘More Hispanic,’ One Stereotype at a Time.”
Ferrer’s perspective, while thoughtful and provocative, is hardly a new gripe in the world of minority advertising. In fact, the […]

Filipino Americans demand for apology from ABC and Desperate Housewives Petition
“In a scene in which Susan was told by her gynecologist that she might be hitting menopause, she replied, “Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines.””
(tags: racism tv […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 84) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Baratunde discuss discuss the Jena Six case, the recent congressional hearings on hip hop, and Bill O’Reilly’s recent revelations that black people are indeed, normal human beings.
This […]