Hollywood’s 6 Favorite Offensive Stereotypes | Cracked.com
The Magic Negro, The Gay/Effeminate Psychopath, The Latina Maid, The Mighty Non-Whitey, The Wise, Old, Asian Asshole, The Cowardly/Incompetent Black Sidekick
(tags: via:vaughn stereotypes movies)

Does Racism Still Exist? - An AverageBro Town Hall Discussion - AverageBro.com
“Then he told the whites in the room something I’d never really considered before. “If […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
The King Kong-esque imagery on the latest cover of Vogue is so striking that even bloggers who don’t usually write about race are sitting up and taking notice. Blog Fashionista said: “It shows personality, sure, but the whole “Me, Tarzan. You, Jane,” vibe doesn’t sit well with the french fries we had […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

Growing up as a Latoya, I used to be a bit annoyed with people asking me about my name and what it meant. Luckily, I was an 80s Latoya, which means I just had to respond to a lot of lame Jackson family jokes. As I grew older, […]

For Bronx School’s Dancers, the Moves Are Irish - New York Times
No doubt someone is writing the screenplay already. “With a student body that is 71 percent Hispanic and 27 percent black, Public School 59 does not seem an obvious home for a thriving Irish dance troupe.”
(tags: dance)

Allen: Being black and running for office - […]

by guest contributor Jenn Fang, originally published at Reappropriate
Six MIT students band together to hoodwink Las Vegas casinos for millions.
It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood movie — and it is. But before Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe), Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishbourne were cast in 21, Ben Mezrich wrote a non-fiction […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

Oh, the things these eyes have seen surfing the gaming blogs. I never know what is going to pop up on Kotaku, so when I saw a write up of Duel Love, I had to laugh. The Nintendo DS game puts you in the role of a transfer student, […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Fatemeh Fakhraie, originally published at Muslimah Media Watch
A smattering of articles have appeared in newspapers lately, aiming to spread the word about how fashionable Muslim women are. These articles seem to refute the idea that Muslim women are against or unreceptive to fashion: “You can be religious and fashionable! Lots of […]

What The Clinton Campaign Wants You To Hear - Too Sense
“If the Clinton campaign was truly embarrassed or disagreed with Ferraro’s comments, they wouldn’t be tossing her into the media frenzy to shout her message from the mountaintops that Barack Obama’s success is due only to his blackness. “
(tags: barackobama racism politics)

Whuh? - Resist racism
“White […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I, along with Brandon Whitney of Homeland Colors and Duane Brayboy of Black Informant, discussed blackface in the new Ben Stiller movie and the whitewashing of Asians in the movie 21 (more on that coming soon) in yesterday’s News & Notes on NPR.
Other topics we covered: the sex scandals involving Eliot Spitzer […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
This is hilarious. Hat tip to Jack and Jill Politics.

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

*We interrupt this political blackout in order to bring you a topic of debate.*
Simply put, were Geraldine Ferraro’s comments racist?
For those who are unaware, Geraldine Ferraro said:

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color), he would […]

by guest contributor HighJive, originally published at MultiCultClassics

The General Market ad shows the Kleenex being hurled like a snowball. The Latino version? A soccerball, of course.

Keanu’s Pocketful of Posey? - MSN Entertainment
It’s been awhile since we had a Keanu update! “OK! magazine has issued a “new couple alert” after spotting Keanu Reeves and Parker Posey taking a load off near one another at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles.”
(tags: via:anthony keanu)

The parent trap - The Boston Globe
“Reacting to […]

by Guest Contributor Thea, originally published at the Shameless Blog

If you read this website at all regularly, you’ve probably heard me moan about how marginalised groups fighting for their rights rarely seem to recognise their commonality. Whether it’s feminists having trouble reconciling with anti-racists, or green anarchists distancing themselves from anti-ableism activists, the whole thing […]

by guest contributor Jae Ran Kim, originally published at Harlow’s Monkey
I was dumbfounded to read Freakonomics author Steven D. Levitt’s response on his NYT blog to a reader’s question about the economic ramifications of international adoption (thanks to durgamom on resist racism for bringing this to my attention). I’ve commented on Levitt before in this […]