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A brand-new episode of Addicted to Race is out! If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Click here to launch iTunes and subscribe today, it’s absolutely free. Here’s a rundown of episode 7:

FEEDBACK: Are the “Everyone Loves A Mixed Girl” T-shirts from Like Minded People empowering or objectifying? Jen and Carmen discuss this question from a listener and ask Jamie Tibbetts–creator of the shirt–to chime in too.

FEEDBACK: We respond to a listener who thinks we have no business criticizing Marguerite W. Davol, author of one of the crappy children’s books we ranted about in our last episode. He thinks we’re reverse racists, and that we’re spoilt rich kids who know nothing about life.

RANT:
We count down the top 5 most racist compliments we’ve ever received.

MIXED MEDIA WATCH NEWS UPDATE:
Jen shares the latest and greatest from Mixed Media Watch. We discuss two advertisements that try to juxtapose different ethnicities for comic effect. One is a vintage ad from Levy’s Real Jewish Rye and another is a contemporary example from a real estate development company.

INTERVIEW WITH ADAM MANSBACH
Carmen interviews Adam Mansbach, author of the critically acclaimed novel Angry Black White Boy. We discuss the divide between the hip hop generation and the civil rights generation, why hip hop studies needs to be approached with more intellectual rigor, and how well-meaning progressive white people still refuse to examine their own white privilege and internal racism.

Here’s a look at the next episode:
1) Carmen will rant about the offensive stereotypes of black men and women constantly perpetuated by the media
2) Mixed Media Watch news round-up
3) We’ll bring you the very first “Mixed Around the World” segment. First up, Carmen discusses growing up mixed in Hong Kong.
4) Jen interviews Emily Raboteau, author of the novel The Professor’s Daughter

Listen to an MP3 of Addicted to Race Episode 7