The Identity Trap - New York Times
“both the feminist movement Clinton rides and the civil rights rhetoric Obama uses were constructed at a time when the enemy was the reactionary white male establishment. Today, they are not facing the white male establishment. They are facing each other.
(tags: barackobama race gender)

Hillary Clinton Gets The Tyra Treatment […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I was on NPR’s News & Notes again today as part of their blogger’s roundtable, along with Bomani Jones and Shay Riley of Booker Rising.
We talked about the racial tension among the Democratic presidential candidates, Angelina Jolie’s NAACP Image Award nomination, and New Jersey’s apology for slavery.
Click here to listen!

by Racialicious special correspondent Fatemeh Fakhraie, originally published at Muslimah Media Watch
Thanks to Latoya for the tip!
Jezebel does an interesting review of Rajaa AlSanea’s Girls of Riyadh that focuses on the consumptive angle of the book; i.e., how obsessed with luxury goods upper class Saudi women are.
While the review itself wasn’t a revelation (I think […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
The first time I ever heard of a fortune cookie was when I read Fifteen by Beverly Cleary. I was 8, and at the time was attending an American school in Shanghai. There’s a part of the book where the protagonist goes on a date in Chinatown, and I was fascinated. Chinatown […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
I always chuckle to myself when I hear someone say that other countries don’t have the same problems with race in the way we do in the US. I guess we aren’t reading the same media.
On my most recent perusal through the periodicals section of the bookstore,* I happened […]

The Oppression Olympics - culturekitchen
“With Obama we have a black politician who is not at the ready for a photo-op with Michael Jackson trying to convince us he is the victim of a racist court system…we have the first truly multiethnic, multiracial, multilingual US American leader.”
(tags: barackobama race gender)

Add syphilis to Columbus’ discoveries, study says […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
More politics - can I retire now?
This morning, I surfed over to the NYT website to skim the headlines before heading into the office. Here’s what I found:
In Obama’s Pursuit of Latinos, Race Plays Role
Brace yourselves.
LAS VEGAS — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has eaten beef tacos in East Los Angeles […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
Politics has invaded my brain and I want it out now! I want to write about all the other posts that are collecting dust in the “drafts” section of this blog, but until I stop feeling my jaw hit the floor after reading the paper, it looks like I […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
IRAN
Leftist Students Arrested, as explained by Hamid Tehrani
The Iranian government arrested several leftists students in Tehran and Mazandaran last week - perhaps as a preemptive action before the “Student Day” (16 Azar). The leftists student group “Students for Freedom and Equality” informed the world about this through their blogs, […]

Race and Gender Are Issues in Tense Day for Democrats - New York Times
“Mrs. Clinton suggested on Sunday that Mr. Obama’s campaign, in an effort to inject race into the contest, distorted remarks she had made about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
(tags: barackobama race gender politics)

Shouting Across the Divide - This American Life
“the […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
One of my pet peeves when it comes to this presidential election is hearing people say that they “just don’t know enough about” a candidate, or that they “don’t know what he/she stands for.” Um… why don’t you just look it up? Or is that too much to ask?
I’m glad I’m not […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
Really, I say, has your skin color hindered you that much?
Alba shoots me an exasperated look.
Yeah, I could let this be the beginning and the end of this post. Jessica Alba is being interviewed by Andrew Goldman in the February issue of Elle Magazine and he poses the question […]

China blogger beaten to death - CNN.com
Jesus! “Authorities have fired an official in central China after city inspectors reportedly beat to death a man who filmed their confrontation with villagers, China’s Xinhua news agency reports.”
(tags: china blogs censorship)

Tiger OK with ‘lynch’ remark, but Sharpton ready for battle - CNN.com
Ugh. “Broadcaster Kelly Tilghman has apologized. Tiger […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
The Notes on Fostering Activism series is designed to open up dialogue regarding community action, activism, patterns of thought, and overlapping issues within various causes and communities. Some posts will deal with race, but some will not. All are encouraged to share their experiences - both here, and experiences […]

I’m worried too, Ms. Steinem… - AngryBlackBitch
“After reading Steinem’s Op-Ed I felt invisible…as if black and woman can’t exist in the same body. I felt undocumented…as if the history of blacks and the history of women have nothing to do with the history of black women.”
(tags: barackobama politics sexism gender racism)

Dear Son - ASIAN POP […]