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 […]

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 […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

A few weeks ago, while browsing Jimi Izrael’s blog, I came across this piece on Tionna Smalls, former advice columnist for Gawker. Now, I am only passing familiar with Gawker as I am a non-New Yorker, I didn’t really get into the blogosphere until last year, and the content on […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A ton of you have been writing to me about a new blog called Stuff White People Like. It’s a hilarious, satirical Wikipedia-esque guide to exactly what the title says, filled with dead-on observations that make you laugh in surprise and recognition. And when I say recognition, I mean not only that […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson

Alisa Valdes Rodriguez - Cuban Americans Should Support Barack
Obama is the only candidate in the race, either Democrat or Republican, who has a Cuba policy that makes any sense. He is the only candidate who is not afraid to state the obvious, which is this: The harsh U.S. economic embargo […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Fatemeh Fakhraie, originally published at Muslimah Media Watch
The original view of Middle Eastern/Muslim women was that of a lazily sensual harem woman reclining on a couch. Most recently, it has morphed into a cowed housewife bullied by her religion and the men in her life. From these icons arises a newer […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
One of my pet peeves when it comes to this presidential election is hearing people say that they “just don’t know enough about” a candidate, or that they “don’t know what he/she stands for.” Um… why don’t you just look it up? Or is that too much to ask?
I’m glad I’m not […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Black girls and other thongs?? WTH?
(Screenshot from my gmail account.)

by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson
What do you hope to accomplish in 2008?
What do you want to do? What do you want to study? What actions do you want to take?
We are not yet half way through the month of December, but resolutions are already on my mind. Heavily into self-evaluation, I tend to […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Fatemeh Fakhraie, originally published at Muslimah Media Watch
Who’s Danielle Crittenden? She writes a blog for The Huffington Post and recently, she decided to “take on the veil” as a social experiment for one week of her life in Washington, D.C. She went straight for the gold and decided to wear the […]

by guest contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said

Why was Don Imus vilified and fired for calling a group of young, black athletes “nappy headed hoes,” but able to return to the airwaves months later provoking barely a stir? Why is Michael Richards’ racist tirade in a Los Angeles nightclub all but forgotten? Why […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Update 11/14 at 10:25 am: Please click here to digg this story so we can bring more attention to it.
Update 11/14 at 7:40 am: Yesterday evening, shady things started happening where the NYT apparently started to add back in some old comments that it had not previously approved. And they’ve now completely […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Check out this great Boston Globe article about bloggers of color who are fighting racial stereotypes and getting their voices heard in the mainstream media. The reporter spoke with me, Manish from Ultrabrown, and Baratunde from Jack and Jill Politics, and name-checked a whole bunch of other blogs: Angry Asian Man, The […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Today’s WTF moment.
Moe from Jezebel — who calls herself “practically Asian,” whatever that means — helpfully breaks down why men are so attracted to Asian women:
there are a few reasons some dudes prefer Asian women, and it starts with the fact that they are very rarely unattractive, and they are even more […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 87) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Lauren Williams discuss the dichotomy in television representations of people of color, and how gossip blogs and magazines treat celebrities of color differently than white celebrities. This […]