By Guest Contributor Mimi Thi Nguyen, originally posted at Threadbared

Western discourses of beauty as coextensive with humanity, morality, and security bear long and bloody histories of undergirding imperial racial classifications. It is as such that the racial Other has often been found under the sign of the ugly –which is to say, the morally reprehensible, [...]

by Guest Contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man
National news outlets have started to pick up on the recent racist incidents spread over several University of California campuses, with news of — I kid you not — a KKK-style hood found at UC San Diego this week: Racist incidents, protests spread at [...]

by Guest Contributor Adam Mansbach, originally published at The Boston Globe

As John Mayer’s racially-charged comments in Playboy magazine ricocheted around the Internet this week, I found myself exhausted by the sad reality that the national dialogue on race remains driven by the engine of celebrity gaffes and gotcha moments.
Our voracious, ADHD-afflicted news cycle castigates, forgives, [...]

by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD
The die is cast early in My Name Is Khan, when the titular lead, Rizwan Khan (Shah Rukh Khan), having already been identified as autistic, is snarkily asked by a TSA agent what he has to tell the President.
“My name is Khan,” he answers. “And I am not [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
Is it a new trend in trailers to highlight comic genius and audacity, by showing just a little bit of racism? First we had the Up in the Air trailer, and now this:

From Paris With Love stars John Travolta (apparently in a reprise of his Face/Off role, plus a keffiyeh) as [...]

by Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man

This is the situation, as I understand it. For the past couple of days, fans of the Korean pop group 2PM were tweeting “#RT기 다릴게 박재범 기다릴게 2PM” (never mind what it means) to show love the group’s ousted Korean American leader Jaebum, who had [...]

by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García
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Just before MLK Day, a jabrone by the name of Don “Moose” Lewis announced his intention to organize the All-American Basketball Alliance: a new hoops league open only to U.S.-born white people – you know, American natives, but not Native Americans.
As a rule, any “announcement” [...]

by Latoya Peterson
I came across this gem while browsing the Hathor Legacy.  Blogger Ankhesen Mié has been watching the debate on fan forums about the Trek reboot (specifically the Spock-Uhura relationship) and decided to create a quiz around some of the most common sentiments:
1)    Do you feel horrified when you see Spock kiss a woman [...]

by Latoya Peterson

Over the weekend, the news broke that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made some ill-advised comments during the campaign in 2008:
Reid apologized to Obama and a handful of black political leaders after a new book reported that he was favorably impressed by Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign and, in a private conversation, [...]

by Guest Contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man
This casting call just dropped into my mailbox. It’s for an untitled music video and appears to be looking for white guys to play “Samurai Guys,” an Asian man to model for the makeup test, and females of all ethnicities to play sexy dancer [...]

by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse
Latoya recently alerted me to a piece in Newsweek on the changing face of race in United States. Author Ellis Cose opines in his brief but compelling piece “Red, Brown, and Blue” that, as a result of the shifting statistics of people of color vs. whites in the U.S., the nation needs [...]

by Latoya Peterson, originally published at Jezebel
In Latina, we learned all about Sonia Sotomayor’s personal life and style. A new profile in the New Yorker thoroughly probes her work life and relationships to paint another picture of the justice as intellectually savvy, confident, and compassionate.
Running twelve long pages, Lauren Collins’s piece delves deeply into Sotomayor’s [...]

by Latoya Peterson

On Christmas, reader Mel sent us a little present. He wrote in about a flash based indie video game covered by the Escapist. The title? Ching Chong Beautiful.
I click over the link, expecting to see a take down. After all, the Escapist does publish a lot of progressive gaming [...]

Whether Avatar is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it’s undeniable that the film – like alien apartheid flick District 9, released earlier this year – is emphatically a fantasy about race. Specifically, it’s a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white [...]

by Guest Contributor Diana, originally published at DISGRASIAN
What is UP with famous country folk and their love of doing the chink eye (see 1:25 of the clip)?

Not to generalize or whatever, but… isn’t that kinda what Toby’s doing here?
[TMZ: Toby Keith Adds Racist Slant To Nobel Party]
Latoya’s Note: This was covered on the Huffington Post, [...]