Instead of Fistfights, Fashion at a Troubled High School – New York Times
“The brainchild of the founders of the Parish Nation clothing label, the show was seen as a way to engage often-neglected teenagers while spreading the word about their brand.”
(tags: fashion education)

Hyphen Blog – George Takei to Marry
“Takei’s role as Sulu in the “Star [...]

by Latoya Peterson
Latoya’s Note: Somehow, my “to blog about ” list of articles crept over fifty. We don’t normally post this late in the day, but I need to start playing catch up.
New York Times – Aid at the Point of a Gun [Point]

France’s foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, has spoken of the possibility of [...]

by Latoya Peterson
I am generally amused by Family Guy, and tend to watch it if it is on television that day though I generally don’t bother to tune in to new episodes. So, when I heard the black character Cleveland was getting a spin-off show, I was intrigued…and wondering what the hell they would [...]

by Latoya Peterson

A response to some of the issues that have cropped up over the last two weeks:
1. Moderators approve every single comment by hand. If we let it through, normally we let it through for a reason. So, take for example, Caro’s comment on the Foo Fighters post. I could [...]

by Latoya Peterson

I already know the Racialicious community likes to read. But exactly what kinds of books are we reading?
Here’s what I’ve been paging through over the past few weeks.
Books:

You’re So Money: Live Rich, Even When You’re Not, Farnoosh Torabi
Home Girls Make Some Noise: A Hip-Hop Feminist Anthology, edited by Gwendolyn D. Pough (and [...]

by Guest Contributor Nadra Kareem, originally published at The Whirliest Girl
Is it possible to exoticize a member of your own racial group? After catching a screening of “The Visitor” recently, I found myself wondering if this were possible. The Tom McCarthy film is about a dispirited academic who returns to the apartment he shared with [...]

by Laura Martinez, originally published at Mi Blog Es Tu Blog

In a recent interview with People magazine, retroacculturated Latina actress Eva Longoria recalled how, as the darkest of four sisters, she was constantly referred to as “La prieta faya” [sic], which then the magazine translates as “the ugly dark one.”

Either Mrs. Longoria’s family flunked Spanish [...]

Foreign Affairs minister slams detention of Baha’i leaders in Iran
“Iran intelligence officials arrested the four men and two women early Wednesday in raids that officials of the internationalist faith say are reminiscent of the deadly sweeps of the 1980s.”
(tags: via:InfodivaMLIS415 racism religion international)

cbs5.com – 2 Gay Men Beaten In Sacramento After Court Ruling
“The Thursday evening [...]

Feministing – Racism is alive and well on the radio
[O]n this North Carolina show they called us “lazy” among other slanderous highlights, and said specifically that the Lumbee tribe are “inbred,” referenced Pocahontas as “Poca-ho-tas,” and Sacajawea as “Sacacooter.”
(tags: via:feministing nativeamerican americanindian sexism racism)

Hyphen Blog – Asian American Hip-Hop For Dummies
“[N]ow 10 years later, Asian [...]

Excerpted by Latoya Peterson

As taken from the Foo Fighters tour rider:

I guess they mean business.
Other items:

(Spotted on Gawker)

by guest contributor Lisa Wade, originally published at Sociological Images

Disclosure: My dissertation, called “Female Genital Mutilation” in the American Imagination, is about how different U.S. constituencies (mainly doctors, activists, journalists, and academics) have framed female genital cutting over the past 30 years. I offer this context for the images below (submitted by Craig C. [...]

Excerpted from Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology, “Hip-Hop Feminism at the Political Crossroads: Organizing for Reproductive Justice and Beyond”

During discussions with other women of color about reproductive rights, sometimes I am confronted by a sista who insists that women of color have not been actively involved in the contemporary women’s movement [...]

The Unapologetic Mexican – Three Gods, An Ocean of Blood, and a Sodden Press
In Jeremiah Wright’s story, the entire point—given you sussed out the arc and weren’t just hearing a couple sentences—was that in this world where so many things are impermanent and will turn and harm you when you thought they would not, there [...]

by Guest Contributor Big Man, originally published at Raving Black Lunatic*
While cruising through the internet the other day, I stumbled across a blog post for a major publication that was shocking because of its blunt honesty. Those of you who consume the mainstream media know that on certain topics, particularly race, there is a lot [...]

The Privilege of Despite – Wheelchair Dancer
“What do we gain by consistently characterizing a disabled person’s ability to function “despite” her disability as a “despite” rather than a “with?” What lies behind that need to see a disability as an obstacle rather than a form of human variation?”
(tags: disability privilege)

…I can’t believe you like money [...]