by Latoya Peterson
Reader Kheng sent in this video, currently being aired in California. Kheng writes:
I am watching TV and I come across this commercial. It made me sick to my stomach. I don’t know if you want to feature it on the blog, but I found it quite offensive and I am surprised it [...]

by Guest Contributor Marisol LeBron, originally published at Post Pomo Nuyorican Homo

A friend of mine from college recently sent me a link to an AfterEllen.com article about the movie Bitch Slap coming out in December 2008. She asked me for my thoughts and here they are…
I think I might be the wrong person to ask.
Reason [...]

by Guest Contributor Alex Alvarez
Interracial and interethnic dating has as much, if not more, to do with “Family Matters” as my own family. So, in order to try to describe the experience of being in an interethnic relationship, I have to first evaluate the culture popping up all around me. Grab some Cheez Puffs [...]

by Guest Contributor Alex Alvarez, originally published at Guanabee
Associate Editor Alex Alvarez, befuddled to find that her boobs and hips, or lack thereof, seem to fall in and out fashion like leggings and stirrup pants and poppers, takes a look at the American women’s magazine industry in an attempt to decipher just how, exactly, they [...]

by guest contributor HighJive, originally published at MultiCultClassics

The General Market ad shows the Kleenex being hurled like a snowball. The Latino version? A soccerball, of course.

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

Fast Company recently profiled Alicia Morga, founder and CEO of online-marketing firm Consorte Media.
The opening paragraphs of the article reveal exactly what is wrong with the advertising industry:
Every marketer, pollster, and advertiser knows this much about Hispanics living in the United States: They are deeply family oriented, and their families [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson

I’ve been waiting for this shoe to drop.
Last August, a former Glamour editor found herself in a hailstorm of controversy after she gave a speech to a law firm where she indicated that an afro was not an office appropriate hairstyle. Jezebel had the scoop:
[A] recent slide show by [...]

(Jennifer Lopez in “Bordertown,” which won’t be seen in the United States)
by Guest Contributor Alisa Valdes-Rodiguez, originally published at Multiplicative Indentity
In 2007, Mexican-born author Reyna Grande’s first novel, “Across a Hundred Mountains,” is released to critical acclaim, and wins the American Book Award – yet Grande’s San Diego bookstore appearance is canceled after anti-immigrant patrons [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse
Author’s note: Before anyone jumps all over me, I use “brown” here as a general term for people of African or indigenous American descent, not solely South Asians or Central Americans, though the article discusses issues for all POC travelers, not just the ones with darker skin.
Ah, Madrid.
I had [...]

by guest contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said
Last week I wrote about the furor surrounding Michelle Obama’s comments about being proud of her country. Some folks just don’t understand how one could not be proud of the United States of America. Luckily, Bill O’Reilly, that paragon of journalistic virtue, is reserving his judgement. [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Sick of the race war hysteria in mainstream media? Yeah me too.
Check out this 3-way IM conversation I had with Lauren from Stereohyped and Maegan from VivirLatino, breaking down race and the presidential election, and that pesky question of just why Asian-Americans and Latinos voted for Clinton, not Obama.
Here’s a tidbit, but [...]

“We could make history by being the first time in a very long time where a grassroots movement of people of all colors — black, white, Hispanic, Asian — rose up, and went up against the princes, the powers, and principalities, and actually won a presidency.”
–Barack Obama, January 13, 2008
It’s official — Racialicious [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Those of you who will be watching the Superbowl this weekend should brace yourself for this stinker of an ad from Taco Bell. Don’t say we didn’t warn you!
(Hat tip to MultiCultClassics)

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Am I the only one who finds this Bill-Clinton-has-black-cred story in today’s New York Times ridiculous?
While the blogosphere and commentariat rang this weekend with angry declarations that he had crossed a line in his criticism of Barack Obama, many in Harlem seemed to mull it over, shrug their shoulders and say [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse
I am by no means an expert on porn, nor do I pretend to be. Yet considering the volume of hits on xtube.com or youporn.com that could be traced back to my IP address, one would assume so. If not that, one would at least be able to mentally file [...]