by Latoya Peterson
Take a look at this cover:

What is the impression you get from the photo accompanying the headline?

Kabobfest asks if the cover is racist.
Fatemeh, when she forwarded the Kabobfest link to me, said she thinks it is racist AND islamaphobic.
After checking out the source of the photo, the articles accompanying this issue of the […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Note: I edited the headline to this post after reading the concerns expressed in the comments section below. Despite my inclusion of a question mark in the original headline, it probably did overly implicate the Clinton camp in this.
Sorry folks! I was a little too eager to jump on this story, given […]

by Latoya Peterson

The BBC Two has unveiled a series of programming devoted to exploring the realities of being white and working class in Britain. White Season, as the lineup is called, seeks to tell the story of the white working class through documentaries, short films, and drama.
The introductory video to the series sets […]

by guest contributor dnA, originally published at Too Sense
Kai Wright ain’t never lied:
Ida B. Wells, at the turn of the 20th century, called it a “threadbare lie.” She was talking about how lynch mobs masquerading as law enforcement justified their actions by claiming black men were raping white women. But Wells […]

by Guest Contributor Alex Alvarez, originally posted on Guanabee
Associate Editor Alex Alvarez takes a look at how nicknames among minorities work to keep a good gordita down and why you, shorty, shouldn’t take it anymore.

Words, in and of themselves, are without power. Their potency comes from the relationship between the speaker and the listener. As […]

A New Look at Race When Death Is Sought - New York Times
Professor Phillips wrote, “five black defendants would be sentenced to the ultimate sanction because of race.”
(tags: racism institutionalracism law)

Chinese Students in U.S. Fight View of Their Home - New York Times
“She meant that the Western news media had not acknowledged the strides China […]

by Latoya Peterson

This post has been continued from part 1.
(Before I get into this next part, let me address something from part one. When I was writing about allies, I specifically was thinking about people who self-identified as women of color allies and who dropped the ball. But as commenter Kali pointed out, things […]

by Latoya Peterson
The last few weeks have been stressful for me in another way entirely.
As a person who devotes quite a bit of time to fighting her own prejudices, this month gave me a whole lot to think about.
I think that people tend to overlook how hard it is to change your thinking and […]

Excerpted by Latoya Peterson

Viva La Feminista - This Latina is Still a Feminist
After college and I entered the real world and got a job (in a feminist office) and starting volunteering off-campus with feminist groups, that’s when the racism shit started to fly. So I’ve been there. Been the token who works her ass off […]

by Guest Contributor Ali
A couple of weeks ago Latoya posted an entry titled Deconstructing Coonskin here at Racialicious. I was aware of the film prior to this although I had never seen it in its entirety. I had attempted to watch Coonskin several times, but could never seem to make it past part 3 on […]

Okay, y’all - who saw the movie over the weekend?
If you did not see the movie because you found the first H & K too sexist, I am here right now to tell you that you made the right choice because the second movie is even worse. (Though, you do get to see three different […]

by Latoya Peterson
So I have been thinking hard lately as to why I should continue to identify as a feminist. Should I change my designation to womanist? Perhaps to I should have no designation at all.
After all, my views won’t change. I am still dedicated to highlighting issues that impact women of […]

by Latoya Peterson
Over at Feministing, there was a nice discussion about a click moment - the moment when you realize that you began to identify as a feminist.
It occurs to me that I have only discussed half of my own personal click moment. I mentioned that it was the Spice Girls that made […]

Seeking the Key to Employment for Ex-Cons - New York Times
“The situation epitomizes the way Newark’s two leading problems, crime and unemployment, are intertwined with the huge number of ex-convicts in the city.”
(tags: crime poverty race)

Elite Korean Schools, Forging Ivy League Skills - New York Times
“Their average combined SAT score was 2203 out of 2400. […]

Daisy’s Dead Air: On having a black name
“I only got my silly record and book reviews published when I started using a pseudonym. Were they suddenly more readable?”
(tags: culture identity names racism)