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“Algenis Perez Soto plays a Dominican pitcher in Iowa in “Sugar,” one of the films demonstrating a new strain of American realism at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.”
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“Many people would shun a book if it were titled “How Not to Look Jewish”…But the success of “How Not to Look Old” indicates that popular culture is willing to buy into ageism as an acceptable form of prejudice, even against oneself.”
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“I am an African-American woman living in South Carolina…I actually visit beauty shops to get my hair done. Never once have I heard a single woman I know frame the choice about whom to vote for as a question of gender or racial politics.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
Anonymous wrote:
Carmen, could you please address the Oscar nomination for Best Make Up that was given to “Norbit”?
Because not only was Eddie Murphy “funny” enough to don a fat suit to play yet another stereotypically obese and revolting black woman, he also did hideous yellow face as “Mr. Wong”, an extremely crude racial stereotype of a Chinese man.
And the Academy decides THAT’S worth honoring?
I’ve come across many people who seem to not undertand why the Mr. Wong character is quite so offensive. Yet ironically, they’d find a non-black person donning blackface offensive (rightly so, but why the double standard towards Asians?). Maybe you could create a post about what it means?
Posted 26 Jan 2008 at 2:13 pm ¶