by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

Carmen, Wendi, and I just got back from WAM!2008 and I think I speak for all of us when I say the conference was amazing.
Some quick highlights:
* I get to Boston and my cab driver is also African-American. He informs me that when he came to Boston in the […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
When I first moved to the U.S. and people asked me why my last name was Van Kerckhove, I would go into the whole explanation about how my mom is Hong Kong Chinese and my dad is Belgian. After I answered the question in detail, inevitably people would reply: “Oh. So you’re […]

by Guest Contributor Tara, originally published at Bias Cut

I think the Universe has been testing me lately.
Over the last several months, I’ve been confronted with some pretty blatantly racist statements about Asian folks, and each moment has been pretty intense in a lot of ways.
While I was in Puerto Rico, my friends and I were […]

New Parodies, Anyone? - TV Decoder - Media & Television - New York Times Blog
““David Alan Grier’s Chocolate News,” scheduled for the first quarter of 2009, will take on shows like “Dateline” and “Inside Edition” but “decidedly from an African-American perspective”
(tags: tv africanamerican black)

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Two must-read posts over at Stereohyped. One from Cord, one from Lauren.

by guest contributor dnA, originally published at Too Sense
There’s a lot of hating going on over at Bossip on a thread that posted the cover of Jet, featuring the gorgeous Garcelle Beauvais and her adorable twins:

(The one on the right is making a black power fist. I’m for surrious.)
Most of the hating takes the form […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Great analysis from Jay Smooth on the music industry’s hypocrisy when it comes to sex versus violence.

…then what is it the second time?

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
So, another illustration and Vixen still has yet to return to her brown roots. (Thanks to Willow and Cheryl for pointing this one out!) No strange lighting in this one - the illustrator drew her this way intentionally. (And it is […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse, originally published at The Coup Magazine (blog)
In light of Reverend Wright’s speech, which you can view in full via the post below, Washington Post guest columnist Jacques Berlinerblau, the program director and associate professor of Jewish Civilization at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
What is this ad selling?

What is this ad selling?

Finally, what is this ad selling?

All three of these ads claim to be selling Chinese Food, but obviously one of these things is not like the others.

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
NPR did an interesting story on Long Duk Dong recently - the Asian exchange student in the movie Sixteen Candles - a racist caricature of a character who has become a thorn in the side of pretty much every Asian-American male born after 1970. (Hat tip to Angry Asian Man.)
They also interview […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse
Despite all the Easter hype, I found myself thinking a lot about Judaism in America this past week. Eliot Spitzer, New York’s Jewish political golden boy and possible presidential hopeful, had been outed for a prostitution scandal, New York Magazine had run an extensive article on actress, singer, performer extraordinaire […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I was in Roanoke, VA on Thursday and stopped into a bookstore to pick up the latest novels by Haruki Murakami and Paul Auster, two of my fave authors. As the lady behind the counter rang up my purchases, we had this exchange.
Bookstore Lady: You must get it all the time!
Me: I […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

It appears that all the people of color who don’t feel quite a part of the fat acceptance movement have a new manifesto.
Tara, blogging on Fatshionista, penned A Different Kind of Fat Rant: People of Color and the Fat Acceptance Movement.
The post opens:
There are reasons why people of color aren’t […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
This email has been making its rounds, apparently. Disgusting. From Snopes via Rachel’s Tavern.