by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

On the Cartoon Brew blog, it has been reported that clothing company Supreme is creating a line of tee shirts based on the 1975 film Coonskin.
Now, as an ’80s baby I had no idea what Coonskin was. So I did a bit of searching.

From the Wiki:
Production history
During the production [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
The Los Angeles Times has a story today on whether Obama’s speech will be able to change the way this country talks about race.
I spent some time on the phone with the reporter as well, giving my views. Here are a few excerpts:
In his recent address on race relations in America — [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

Why do I always find the best things when I am procrastinating?
Screwing around on an article I am writing, I happened to catch up with Fatemeh, who let me know about a truly fabulous blog, Sex & The Islamic City.
The writer, known as English, paints a gorgeous description of her [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

So, I’ve been watching the flow of this conversation with great interest.
Racial identity is a tricky thing. For some of us, it’s something we were born into, with relatives coaching us into an understanding of our race and how it may work against us in society. Others have [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

Paging through an older issue of Pride Magazine, I noticed something that initially stood out to me as strange.
Hmm, I thought to myself, they have a lot of dark skinned women in this magazine. Wonder why?
Then I wondered to myself why I thought it would be strange to [...]

by guest contributor Brigitte, originally published at Make Fetch Happen
Do you remember when Vogue India hit the stands and Australian model Gemma Ward was front and center flanked by two presumably Indian models in what I like to call “the coveted Beyonce spot?” All I could do was laugh at how predictable that move was [...]

Test Screening Will Prove If Jessica Alba Is Done With Offending Latinos, Ready To Offend Hindus | Guanabee
“Paramount Pictures is conducting a test screening for a few Hindu leaders to see whether they find Mike Myers speaking in a funny accent [in The Love Guru] while in brownface to be somewhat problematic”
(tags: desi racism movies [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

Just a quick follow up on an older post, as I noticed something of interest.
Of the thirteen comments on the Glamour article we spoke about a bit earlier, two were made by Native Americans:
Feb 26, 2008 8:12:59 PM
katurtle says:
I would first like to say, Hurah for putting yet another race-loving-be-yourself-being-black-is-beautiful [...]

by Guest Contributor Stacey May, originally published at the Shameless Magazine blog

Some of you may have heard that Toronto city councilor Rob Ford recently got himself into some trouble by saying the following (moronic and offensive) thing in a speech proposing that stores be allowed to open when they wish:

“Go to Hong Kong, okay? I’ve [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
The trailer for the new Ben Stiller comedy we discussed last week, starring Robert Downey Jr. as a white actor who puts on blackface to play a role originally written for a black man, is out. (Hat tip to Undercover Brother.)
What do you think?

On Defensive, Obama Plans Talk on Race – New York Times
“he would also use the opportunity to open a broader discussion of race, which his campaign has said throughout the contest that it wants to transcend. He will bluntly address racial divisions, one aide said…”
(tags: barackobama race)

Obama’s Brother in China – New York Times
“But you [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
It’s up. You can read it over at the NYT. If someone knows of a video, please leave a link in the comments. (Thanks Nae!)
It’s seven pages long and worth reading every word. A passage:
But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

My friend Spiff and I recently spent the greater part of a day at the National Portrait Gallery. I had wanted to check out Let Your Motto Be Resistance before it closed and I wanted to introduce Spiff to the greatness that was Recognize! Hip-Hop and Contemporary Portraiture.
After taking [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Wendi and I met Latoya in real life for the very first time this weekend! Since I never fact-checked her life story, I was relieved to find that Latoya was indeed who she said she was, and not a white woman playing make-believe a la Margaret Seltzer.
The reason we got [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Fatemeh Fakhraie, originally published at Muslimah Media Watch
On Saturday and Sunday, CNN ran a program called On Deadly Ground: The Women of Iraq. Hosted by Arwa Damon, the program briefly profiled several women who live in Iraq; at the beginning, she promises, “You will meet the women of Iraq.”
The program opens [...]