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The Mad Hatter’s Review takes a look at Thaddeus Rutkowski’s new book, Tetched. Thad’s cult following of NYC Swirlies is quite excited for this new release — it will most definitely be one of our upcoming book club reads! Congrats, Thad!
In Thaddeus Rutkowski’s latest novel, Tetched, we follow the narrator, a young boy […]

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BallerStatus.net reports on a story that we didn’t seem to get wind of in the US….apparently, a couple months back, Common displayed his distate for interracial relationships in an interview with a London-based magazine. It angered a few emcees — so much that they put a rhyme together to respond to Common’s racist views! (You […]

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Check out a great new article Jen just wrote with advice for teachers with mixed students in their classes:
What I am suggesting is that teachers acknowledge mixed identity in their classrooms. I am not suggesting that you give mixed students special treatment. I am also not recommending that you go overboard by trying to pinpoint […]

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(Thanks to Michelle and Lin for sending along these stories!) Everyone’s been talking about the “looting” vs. “finding” controversy, where blacks were labeled by the media as looting food, while whites simply “find” it. Salon.com ran a great article by Aaron Kinney, with official reactions from AP and AFP, the two news outlets that put […]

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It’s good to see that there is some movement to address all of the recent hate crimes in Michigan. We reported on a couple of cross burnings that happened there in early July. This past Wednesday, there was a symposium to discuss the recent wave of race-motivated crimes. It was good to see that a […]

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Backstage interviews Darlene Love about her latest stint as Motormouth Maybelle in the Broadway show, Hairspray. She talks a bit about the racial/interracial themes of the musical and relates it back to her own life.
Inspired by the campy John Waters film, “Hairspray” recounts the jolly and occasionally anguished antics of teenagers in 1962 Baltimore who […]

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That describes the new release by K.C. Hopkins, Loving Me. An interracial love affair with a tragic ending. Sounds cliche, but this book promises to offer a twist. Eworldwire explains a bit more.
The book follows the love story of a young interracial couple in a small predominantly white town. Race is the least of […]

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The self-hating old man from The Boondocks is still grateful that he’s mixed in today’s strip. Even though the comic usually makes fun of this character, and he *does* handle his identity in problematic ways at times, it is interesting to see someone from an older generation proclaim his mixed identity (although it is usually […]