Missing: The “Right” Babies | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org
“It’s “the baby bust,” “the birth dearth,” “the graying of the continent”: modern euphemisms for old-fashioned race panic as low fertility among white “Western” couples coincides with an increasingly visible immigrant population across Europe.”
(tags: via:daddyinastrangeland race racism fertility)

When Antisemitic “Pseudo-Science” Gets Tenured and Promoted to Full - […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

Edison Chen is a Chinese-Canadian pop star in Hong Kong who has recently found himself in a bit of trouble.
Innocently taking his Macbook in for repair, Chen - who had announced plans to marry his long time girlfriend - found himself embroiled in a sex scandal in which the upwards […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
First, let me apologize for how slow/down this and our other blogs have been over the last few days. I’ve got some major database issues and am working on getting it fixed - thanks for bearing with us in the meantime. It’s been tortuous, I know.
I wanted to find out if anyone […]

Daily Mail solicits fuel for racist immigration stories - The F-Word
“A leaked email from a Daily Mail features writer is doing the rounds. It demonstrates the newspaper’s xenophobic agenda perfectly”
(tags: racism immigration journalism europe)

Goodbye to all that #2 - Comment is free
“Goodbye to a campaign where he has to pass as white (which whites - […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse
A few weeks ago, while walking along the sidewalks of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a well-known strip for the burgeoning fashionista or the credit card terrorist, I stopped dead in my tracks. Though normally oblivious to any movement around me on the streets near my office, especially as most of […]

A Black and Brown Valentine’s…Part I - at the table of black and asian relations
“”Everywhere I turn it seems, eligible South Asian guys outnumber Black men–the Cornel Westian and available sort of guy I imagined dating growing up…the site of an Indian man, let’s say on the subway, gets me rocking nervously back and forth […]

by guest contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?
–Sojourner Truth
Today I […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Just read this on What About Our Daughters and am so bummed out. Here’s the statement from CW:
The prolonged strike has changed business conditions and our programming strategy for the balance of the 2007/08 season. To better focus its creative and financial resources, The CW will only resume production on shows that […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
Warning: Uncensored language in this post.

Grabbing lunch one day in my work cafeteria, I requested a bacon cheeseburger.
“Sorry,” the guy behind the counter said, “no swine.”
I nodded, but must have had a quizzical look on my face because he then asked me if I knew what swine was. I […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Fatemeh Fakhraie
This sloppy article from CNN talks about how Saudi Arabia overreacts to Valentine’s Day every year and bans all things red in an attempt to quash any plans Saudis have to celebrate the holiday. The Saudi government considers Valentine’s Day to be un-Islamic and thus bans roses, teddy […]

Obama and McCain Sweep 3 Primaries - New York Times
“Senator Barack Obama rolled to victory by large margins in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia on Tuesday, extending his winning streak over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to eight Democratic nominating contests.”
(tags: barackobama politics)

Writers vote to end 3-month strike - CNN.com
“The Writers Guild of America […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
As we have seen in the last two posts, privilege is difficult to define.
There is a material aspect to privilege. There is the issue of access to opportunities. There is also the issue of perception of privilege.
One of the main characteristics of privilege is that people generally are […]

Seeking Unity, Obama Feels Pull of Racial Divide - New York Times
“Dr. West recalled the conversation, saying that if Mr. Obama focused on disparities caused by a history of white privilege, “he’d be pegged as a candidate who caters only to the needs of black folks.” “His campaign is about all folks,” Dr. West
(tags: barackobama […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

Alternet - Hillary Clinton’s Superdelegate “Firewall”
Al Gore’s 2000 campaign manager and superdelegate Donna Brazile describes the essence of this elitist practice. “One person, one vote? Forget about it. Some votes are worth more than others. You have to know the rules.”
[…]
Tom Foreman of CNN.com provides a super brief history of […]

by guest contributor Jenn Fang, originally published at Reappropriate
On Friday night I just happened to turn CNN on, and heard something I really though I would never have heard before. Anderson Cooper was telling his viewers to stick around for a segment on (gasp!) “The Asian American Vote”. We exist!
I dutifully waited about a half-hour […]