JC
Yesterday, Renu reported on the pulling of “Welcome to the Neighbohood.” Today the National Fair Housing Alliance issued a press release to commend ABC for pulling the show that was about to air. Here is an exerpt:
Housing discrimination is a serious problem in the United States–in fact, an estimated 3.7 million instances of housing discrimination […]

JC
Philippa Schuyler was a biracial pianist/prodigy who rose to fame in the 40s. Digital Spy reports that the upcoming film about her life, Composition in Black and White (based on the book of the same title) will also introduce viewers to Philippa’s hybrid-vigor-subscribing-parents. Look out! Filming starts this summer. Halle Berry is producing and […]

JC
Theater Mania reviews Staceyann Chin’s new one-woman show, Border/Clash. Many of you may have seen her perform in Def Poetry Jam. She returns to the stage with this show to continue to discuss identity and sexuality.
Staceyann Chin is Woman — hear her roar! She has every reason to shout out loud and proudly. In […]

RK
After multiple minority, social, and community organizations applied major pressure to the ABC TV network, as of 11:00 last night “Welcome to the Neighborhood” was officially pulled from airing (see articles at CNN and the New Haven Register). Gee, do you think it was because the idea of having minorities and LGBT families *compete* for […]

CVK
Ugh… another article to add to our rapidly growing collection of God-Awful Opinion Pieces On Interracial Relationships. (If you missed this gem from January 2005, here’s your chance to catch up. Oh, and Stanley Crouch’s recent column is another beaut.)
Anyway, AOL Blackvoices published a Q&A column in which a reader asked whether it’s […]

JC
Time interviews Vin Diesel about his newest movie, The Pacifier, now out on DVD. Within this Q & A, he is asked about Hollywood’s treatment of his multiracial identity. He thinks things have gotten better.
Q: Early on, you found your multiracial background a hindrance to getting roles. Has Hollywood changed?
A: My career is proof […]

JC
The Korea Times reports on Brenda Sanders, a mixed teacher who returns to Korea to give back….in the form of financial support and hair straightener.
A daughter of an African-American serviceman stationed in Pyongtaek and a Korean mother, Sanders lost contact with her father shortly after she entered elementary school, and lived in difficult conditions afterwards […]

JC

The Washington Post reports on the phenomenon of the blended wedding. Not only are we seeing more interracial couples, but more weddings to reflect the ethnicities of the bride and groom. There is a push away from that which is traditional (move over white gowns, hello saris, kente cloth, mandarin-collared dresses), and a move towards […]

JC
Pop Matters features an opinion piece by Mark Harris who explores a new mixed identity for himself: Gray. He rejects terms like mixed and biracial and instead calls himself gray and rants about the lack of “gray” representation in the media. And you know, even though he said a couple of things I didn’t […]

JC
In prep for Gay Pride Day, The Village Voice published their “Queer Issue”. It features a few stories that point to dating trends within the queer and transgender communities. Diff’rent Strokes discusses the phenomenon of interracial dating in the gay community and what accounts for the higher numbers of IR couples (a recent UCLA study […]

CVK
Sigh… Oh Jackie… Maybe you should keep your mouth shut and just keep grinning and kicking ass. From Angry Asian Man:
What kind of smack are you smoking, Jackie Chan? He seems to think it’s brilliant plan: “We can encourage more foreigners to marry Shanghai ladies so their children will be able to speak Chinese. It […]

PC (A new MMW contributor!)
Michael Wong’s older brother built a career in Hollywood, while he became a film heartthrob in Hong Kong. Now the American-born star is eyeing a return to his home country amid the rise of Chinese cinema in the West. The brother is Russell Wong, who starred with Jet Li in “Romeo […]

CVK
(Thanks to Michelle M for all the tips here!) There have been quite a few instances of interracial couples and/or mixed people on TV lately. Here’s a rundown:
“House” on Fox (episode 20, airdate 5/10): An Asian man (specifically Korean) is brought into the hospital and it turns out his life-threatening ailments are related to his […]

MBF (a new MMW contributor!)
The popular “Harry Potter” series contains interracial romances where race is not an issue. Kudos goes to J.K. Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series, for including such since Great Britain is a multiracial place.
Many examples abound. For instance, Harry’s first crush is on a girl named Cho Chang, of Chinese […]

CVK & JC
We’re going to be guests tonight on WBAI’s Asia Pacific Forum. Tune in from 8 to 9 PM as we discuss the significance of this past Sunday’s 38th anniversary of the Loving v. Virginia decision. We’ll talk about the current state of affairs for interracial couples, the myths and stereotypes that continue to […]

JCD (a new MMW contributor!)
Today, the Senate issued an apology to the descendants of lynching victims, including James Cameron, 91, the oldest known living survivor of an attempted lynching in the U.S.; Simeon Wright, the cousin of Emmett Till; and Doria Lee Johnson, the great-granddaughter of Andrew Crawford. The Senate resolution is sponsored by Senators […]

AY
Sidelined San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds is in the news again, not over performance-enhancing drugs or his pursuit of Hank Aaron’s home run record, but over his response to a book by former Chicago White Sox player Ron Kittle, who quotes the San Francisco star as saying “I don’t sign for white people” before […]

ELW

In the April 2005 issue of KoreAm Journal, Dorothy Pirtle reflects on the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 in her article, It Was Never an Uprising. She writes about the racial tension, misunderstandings, and legacy of the Riots as well as her personal experience being African American and Korean American and living in the […]

CVK

MMW has been telling you about the apparent cross-burning epidemic that ’s sweeping the nation. Now interracial couples are getting their whole house burnt down! Scary stuff, but at least the Feds are doing something for a change:
An interracial couple’s home was set ablaze last month in Vidor; now the FBI and ATF are jointly […]

CVK
A couple of people have alerted us to another article in this month’s GQ that discusses representations of interracial relationships in Hollywood (thanks Marty and Jessica for the heads-up!). Unfortunately it’s not online so we can’t link to it. But basically it retreads some themes we’ve discussed on MMW in the past.
Column “The Critic” […]