links for 2007-12-07
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Maghag: Merry Christmas, Black Models, Wherever You Are
“Intern Maria did the tireless work of looking for black models, Asian models and models of any color but white in the December issues of the major women’s fashion magazines. She writes, “Surprise! There were no women of color in ANY fashion spread”
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SCHMIDT’S PEACE PARTY – COMICON.com
“Rob Schmidt’s hoping to create a whole new generation of hero when he takes two Native Americans from the Hopi and Pueblo tribes and bestows great powers upon them. Schmidt believes he’s filling a void in today’s comics”
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“The fact that Snoop was saved from the fruits of her success as a dealer by The Wire…That there was ever a TV show with the payroll and the plotline and the will to hire Baltimore corner kids is something beyond the realm of fairytale.”
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Hottt Wired: The Currency Of The Word “Latina” Online | Guanabee
“the currency of the term “Latina” definitely carries a lot of, uh, porny connotations…we are often viewed as less “individual people with thoughts and feelings” and more” a series of holes and curves.””
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On campuses, students struggle with racism, ethnic tensions – The Boston Globe
“The subject of racial and ethnic tensions on college campuses has become so topical that a November episode of “Without a Trace” kicked off with a white student calling his black peer an affirmative-action “charity case” during class.”
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What are they trying to tell us? – Muslimah Media Watch
“In my opinion, depicting Muslims engaging in lusty or affectionate behaviour, or depicting Muslim women, heads uncovered, in the privacy of their homes, aides in the process of ‘normalizing’ us. After all, is this not how we behave?”
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Twenty Years Later: James Baldwin’s America Hasn’t Changed – RaceWire
“Baldwin’s work remains contemporary because America’s racial caste system changed so little over the generations that his writing spans. Baldwin considered race America’s poison pill.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Rob Schmidt wrote:
Thanks for the link to my interview. But it’s PEACE PARTY, not PEACE PARTK. I’d correct this if I were you; there’s no need to repeat their typo. And there’ s no need to post this comment if you don’t want to.
Posted 07 Dec 2007 at 8:30 am ¶
Kate wrote:
Re: The Boston Globe article about simmering ethnic tensions in Boston-area universities: check out this Boston College football fan message board’s response to the article:
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=165&f=2956&t=1598660&sto=pagestart#s=165&f=2956&t=1598660&p=1
Ah, of course, the enlightened minds of Boston College reveal themselves. If a minority student complains about racism, they’re probably really only making it up, or are bitter rejects to begin with. I love how they single out one Asian-American female who was referenced in the article and say she is just another Asian loser, and probably a fat chick and a lesbian to boot (because those are the worst things, ever).
I also love how the message board thread further degenerates into complaining about loud Asians in the library and their smelly food. Awesome.
Posted 07 Dec 2007 at 10:05 am ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
Fixed! Thanks Rob, I thought that was weird.
Posted 07 Dec 2007 at 10:50 am ¶
Anonymous wrote:
I really needed that college racism article today. I thought I was going crazy. I’m one of a handful of minorities in a primarily white graduate school class…in Washington D.C. of all places…and I don’t know how much more I can take. I tried to tactfully call out two girls (who are otherwise my friends) on a lot of the racist things they spouted…but it wasn’t enough. They countered EVERY word saying something was either a joke or they Get it, they spent lots of time around minorities blah blah…and then my head started to hurt. Any suggestions on how to deal on an individual basis? I don’t know that many people around here and I don’t think my odds of starting/joining a hate crime patrol are very high, but I’d like to make it to the end of the year without being referred to as “you people” again.
Posted 07 Dec 2007 at 5:25 pm ¶
Theo wrote:
Re: The Boston Globe article about simmering ethnic tensions in Boston-area universities
I’m not saying that the (racist) students themselves are blameless, but I do think that a large part of the blame for these problems/incidents should be placed on the colleges and universities themselves. I attended a small liberal arts college (from 1999-2003) that actively recruited people of color and then bragged about its “diversity”. However, once the students arrive on campus, all coming from very different schools and backgrounds, little to nothing was done to help integrate this diverse population that the school was supposedly so proud of. Additionally, the school had a terrible record of not granting tenure to professors of color. In my opinion, the lack of effort on the part of the educational institutions to educate their students about race issues does everyone a disservice.
Posted 08 Dec 2007 at 12:14 pm ¶
Ratrace wrote:
That story about Snoop is crazy. I always wondered about some of the actors on The Wire, they just seemed to real and compelling to be anything but genuine corner kids. Great article, thanks.
Posted 09 Dec 2007 at 9:34 pm ¶