by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
Ah, we have tasted the crumbs and they are sweet.
(Well, at least compared to the increasingly unpalatable fare of reality TV.)
While Darren Star’s offering is derivative and all too reliant on Sex and the City style, there is just enough potential (read: there is some form of a script) to […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Fatemeh Fakhraie, originally published at Muslimah Media Watch
Giuliani’s new campaign advertisement has started running in Florida. It’s full of clips of angry brown people pumping fists, wielding guns, and shouting angrily. But these brown people aren’t identified by race, nationality, or history. They’re supposedly defined by Islam and their hatred for […]

Women, White Privilege, And The Bradley Effect - Too Sense
“But discussing sexism without acknowledging white privilege…allows people like Applebaum and Steinem to minimize their access to power, which by any objective measure is greater than that of black Americans of either gender.”
(tags: sexism racism feminism gender)

Hillary, Gloria, and the Vagina Litmus Test - Feministing
“to me, […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Today’s WTF moment for you. (Thanks Dorothy!) From Yahoo! News:
“The Great Debaters,” a film based on the real-life victories of a black debating team in the 1930s, topped the list of nominees announced Tuesday for the 39th NAACP Image Awards…
Nominated for outstanding actress: Jurnee Smollett for “The Great Debaters,” Angelina Jolie for […]

by Racialicious guest contributor Jennifer Fang, originally published at Reappropriate
Since 2004, when rumours abounded over an Obama candidacy, pundits have cast this year’s Democratic election as a battle of identity politics: will Americans choose a Black man or a White woman to be their nominee for president? And by extension, will this finally settle the […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson

(Special thanks to reader Ryan for sending this in!)
My first thought was, “I have no words.”
My second thought was, “Hell, I have a ton of words.”
But, why don’t you guys have at it first?
What do we think?

Hillary: You Negroes Better Thank The White Man For Your Rights - Jack and Jill Politics
“”Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act,” Clinton said. “It took a president to get it done.””
(tags: barackobama politics race racism civilrights)

Obama Win Doesn’t Mean Racism Lost - afrospear
“Barack Obama may enjoy […]

by guest contributor Tasnim, originally published at Epiphanies of the Shocked and Awed
Persepolis, the animated film based on Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, was released in the US on 25 December. The film, like the novel, is in black and white and just as visually striking. Satrapi says that she sees “images as a way of […]

Drug Bias Seen In ERs — Courant.com
“Doctors are more likely to prescribe strong painkillers for white patients than for blacks and other minorities, according to a finding that researchers say may spotlight bias in the emergency room.”
(tags: via:robschmidt healthcare race)

‘The Kite Runner’ Critiqued: New Orientalism Goes to the Big Screen - CommonDreams.org
“This adventurous and engrossing […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Black girls and other thongs?? WTH?
(Screenshot from my gmail account.)

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
An American couple based in Haiti want to open a park called Memory Village to educate people about slavery (thanks Tricia):
Visitors to Memory Village would decide whether they wanted to be spectators or participants during a twelve-hour day. The latter would receive traditional African clothing and then be mock-kidnapped from their homelands, […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’m back! Happy new year to everyone. And many thanks to Wendi and Latoya for holding it down when I was gone.
This is me in Lan Kwai Fong - one of Hong Kong’s most famous (but way too touristy) nightlife areas.
As you probably noticed, I didn’t have time to post my […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
I did not intend to post today, but I caught a lot of great articles in my blog reader, so….
*Aunt Jemima’s Revenge posts My First Lesson on Being Black:
For a school art contest, I proudly submitted a drawing of Peppermint Patty on a baseball mound. I played little league, I […]

* Jenn from Reappropriate posts the 2007 State of Asian Americana.
* ZOMG! A sci-fi series where brown people didn’t die in the great plague! (Women still look like decorative sex objects though, sigh.) Angry Asian Man has the scoop on Resistance.
*As we found out yesterday, Iowa had a crush on Obama. A […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
Ever since Sex and the City ended in 2004, the television industry has been looking for the next big thing - which really means another way to milk to popularity of a culturally iconic series. In addition to releasing the silver screen version of SATC, 2008 will bring in the […]