The real problem is less the absence of non-white faces from the media than the repeated underlining of “whiteness” as universally relevant even within the already “special” domain of women’s interests. A quick survey of columnists writing on “women’s issues” in the British media underscores this. Hardly any are non-white, while those that are will […]

The Root - The Audacity of Taupe

I’m not talking about “multiracial,” “miscegenation,” “mongrel,” “mutt,” “mestizo,” “masala” or even “Mariah.” I’m talking about a word imbued with a legacy of racial strife in America that goes all the way back to the summer day in 1789 that Sally Hemings forgot to lock her bedroom door and […]

by Guest Contributor Bomber Girl, originally published at Girl in the Machine

There’s been a veritable dry spell in survival horror games as of late, and I’ve definitely been suffering. Dementium: The Ward for the Nintendo DS was a huge disappointment, and Silent Hill: Origins left me with only a cynical apprehension for September’s Homecoming. This […]

by Guest Contributor Daniel Hernandez, originally published at Intersections

A little Mexico detour, because I’m wondering: Do news media outlets refer to the NAACP as “The Colored People” or the AJC as “The Jewish Committee”? No, they don’t. Yet while covering this month’s NCLR conference in San Diego many outlets including the L.A. Times, Washington Post, […]

by Guest Contributor Danielle Belton, originally published at The Black Snob

“She needs to quit.”
That’s how the discussion got kicked off on One Drop Rule’s message board July 2nd. The person accused of needing to cease and desist was CNN reporter Soledad O’Brien who spent the past year working on a documentary for the cable news […]

by Latoya Peterson

I have been interested to watch how the Black in America project has been received around the blogosphere. It was an eighteen-month project that many think should have been thought about a bit more. A summary of the series is here.
Tariq Nelson provides an interesting perspective on why he isn’t annoyed:
Last night […]

Media Whores: Racist Media Whore Designer Says Dumb Things All By Himself
“Sample: “’I’ve received death threats on the phone, especially from black people,’ [b.d.] said. How did he know, over the phone, their ethnicity? ‘They sound African-American.’” There’s more!”
(tags: racism media)

Newspaper Rock — Monument to a Murderer
“Oñate is a documented conqueror who killed, enslaved, or […]

by Guest Contributor Jen, originally published at Disgrasian
Ever wonder how an internet meme gets started? Or, for that matter, how it then spreads and metastasizes until it becomes accepted fact?
Over the last week, we’ve seen one particular meme develop about China: “China Hates Black People” (courtesy of Perez Hilton).

This idea didn’t, however, originate with Perez […]

Vegans of Color - Mutt, Mulatto, Mule?

One of the most common hassles that mixed-folks have to deal with is a sense of “hybrid-vigor,” an idea that breeding across difference, as in the case with dogs, creates a stronger, and more attractive breed. Mules are said to have the strength of a horse with the intelligence […]

by Special Correspondent Nadra Kareem

As the U.S. launched its specious war on terrorism, George Bush wrangled away another presidential election, a stunned nation took in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and miraculously a biracial senator from Illinois rose to prominence, the absence of one of the music scene’s most influential voices has been sorely missed. […]

by Latoya Peterson
It is with great pleasure that I am able to introduce you to the two newest additions to the Racialicious team!
Thea Lim

Our first new correspondent is the fabulous Thea Lim, who I shamelessly harassed to write for our blog until she finally gave in and became part of the team!
Thea Lim lives in […]

by Guest Contributor Mimi, originally published at Threadbared

While the Gossip isn’t in my regular rotation (there’s always something about the production value of their albums that throws me), Beth Ditto’s ascension as a fearlessly fat and femme style icon is on my radar for sure. There’s much to be said about Beth Ditto, fat and […]

by Guest Contributor Jessica Yee, originally published at The Shameless Blog
This story actually made me cry.
Five year old Adriel Arocha is being blocked from attending school in a Houston-area school district.
The reason?
As an Apache, he has long hair that he has been growing in his Native cultural tradition that “violates” this school’s dress code rules.

The […]

Fatshionista!
“Ever since I wrote that article about people of color and the Fat Acceptance movement, I’ve been thinking more about what it is I’d like to see the white members of the FA community do to start working towards a truly intersectional analysis and fram
(tags: feminism politics race)

I’m back.
Thank you to the following readers: Joseph, Marge Twain. I appreciated the well wishes especially since you were the only two readers who chose to do so. (And thanks to the rest of the Racialicious team.) As for the rest of you, I see how it is.
Some notes:
* I did not […]