CVK
Check out this article on Jews of color from the Atlanta Jewish Times Online, featuring MMW’s very own Jen Chau! The article is based on Jen’s presentation at the Jewish Outreach Institute Conference. To find out more about our workshops on mixed race identity and interracial relationships, please visit the New Demographic Web site.
At religious […]

JC & CVK
Tomorrow (12/30) morning’s News & Notes with Ed Gordon will be opening with a segment on interracial relationships. MMW’s own Carmen Van Kerckhove will be one of the guests, along with Debra Dickerson, author of “The End of Blackness.”
If you’re in NYC, you can tune in at 9 AM on AM 820 (WNYC). […]

JC
It gets better — the Boondocks takes it there. Now, obviously, this is all said in jest. I mean, look at who is saying it….but…I have heard a couple of people talking about this — that King Kong is symbolic of an interracial love tale. I honestly think this is taking things too far….you can’t […]

JC
Check out the Boondocks from yesterday.

JC

Rain speaks with SignOn San Diego about her dad, Richard Pryor.
This year, the moments that hung deepest were spent midday with Rain Pryor, Richard’s daughter, in the darkened showroom of the venerable Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. It was there that her dad honed the material that turned him into the funniest man […]

CVK
So Jen and I were walking down West 13th Street this past weekend and lo and behold, there was a big-ass poster for that damned Kill Whitie party. Uggghhhhh just die already! Anyway, after we took this pic we just had to rip it down.
Don’t know what it’s all about? Read about it […]

JC

Angelina Weimann is another mixed adolescent who is having to face violence and threats from her classmates. It escalated to the point that her mom had to remove her from the school to ensure her safety. The Denver Post reports:
Katrina Weimann, who is white, said she enrolled her 13-year-old daughter, Angelina, in Mesa County […]

JC
Today, USA Today published an article about the portrayal of interracial relationships on hit TV shows like Lost, Gray’s Anatomy, and ER. It talks about the positive trends we are seeing in media representations of interracial couples — that we are moving even one step beyond merely casting in a colorblind manner — we are […]

JC
The Pasadena Star News published a typical story about the difficulty of transracial adoption (e.g. parents don’t necessarily know how to raise children of another race since they walk in different shoes)…but this one seemed more hopeless and lazy than most I have read. Ok. Fine. Recognize that if you are of a different ethnic […]

LL
When a show’s premise is based on age-old stereotypical gender roles of the bread-winning husband and domestic housekeeping wife, there are going to be some issues. When that show is called “WifeSwap” (which to me rings too close to “swinging”) there are even more issues. In tonight’s episode, the ABC website synopsizes as best it […]

CVK
The Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale is at the center of a controversy surrounding its new exhibit, “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs.” Why the uproar? Because the museum is exhibiting arguably Caucasian-looking CGI busts of King Tut. From the Houston Chronicle:
“We’re visual people, so whatever they throw at us, we’re going […]

CVK
There’s an interesting article on Alternet about the problematic nature of the way Asian-American, Latino, and Native American media advocacy groups compile information for their annual “report cards” on minority representation in television. Essentially, they focus only on network television and discount all cable programming, and even most sports and news programming:
In fact, television has […]

LL (a new MMW contributor!)
Anybody catch Saturday’s episode? I’m digging around to find a video or transcript of it…but I can’t find anything so far. Basically it was another appearance of the singing duet, a black man and white woman, who only sing about “interracial love” to an empty audience. They started to sing this […]

CVK & JC
It’s the holiday season - what better time than now to buy an Addicted to Race t-shirt for yourself or your loved ones? They’re available in Lemon or Fuschia for women, Aqua and Lemon for men. Buy one today at Like Minded People.
If you already have an ATR tee, email us a […]

JC & CVK
Check out our second videocast episode of Addicted to Race! If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Click here to launch iTunes and subscribe today, it’s absolutely free. By the way, MPEG4 files can be viewed in iTunes, which you can download for free here.
Jen and Carmen share […]

JC
Jazmine, the mixed girl from the Boondocks crew made her debut on the cartoon tonight. She played her stereotypical naive self — getting upset when Riley told her that Santa wasn’t real (after Riley attacked the mall’s Santa twice, they decided to hire a black Santa — the self-hating mixed/black guy who we have discussed […]

CVK
(Thanks to Luke for this!) I’ll have to set my Tivo for this. This Sunday’s 60 Minutes will profile actor Morgan Freeman, who lashes out against Black History Month and offers his solution to end racism: stop talking about it. Ahem. No comment yet, I’ll have to watch this show first.
“You’re going to relegate my […]

JC & CVK
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be keynote speakers at the upcoming National Student Conference for the Mixed Race Experience! Please visit mixituponcampus.com to register or contact bridges@macalester.edu if you have any questions about the event. We hope to see you there!
The 2006 National Student Conference for the Mixed Race Experience is […]

CVK
Spoiler alert. Just some quick notes on a few shows I watched this week that had some interracial or mixed themes…
Nip/Tuck: The son (pictured) has been dating this girl who is a fervent white supremacist and so is the rest of her family. In this week’s episode, she tries to bleach her skin because she […]

CVK
No he doesn’t, according to Stanley Crouch, who delivers us another rambling column for the New York Daily News that is supposed to be about King Kong, but is really just another excuse to bitch about hip hop.
In that period of race theories, one could hear that the 1933 film “King Kong” was actually […]