CVK
(Thanks to RK for this one!) Even dinosaurs know that fetishizing people based on race is dumb. Check out this strip from the Dinosaur Comics, where two dinosaurs discuss their friend who only dates Asian women.

CVK
(Thanks to Anna Uma Morgan for this one!) The New York Times Magazine had a short article about the fact that geneticists are using the Muggle/non-Muggle to explain heredity:
This summer, the journal Nature published “Harry Potter and the Recessive Allele,” a letter that argued that J. K. Rowling’s tales of the young wizard Harry Potter […]

CVK & JC

John J. Chen copied us on this great email he sent to New Line Cinema, regarding their January release The New World, yet another retelling of the story of John Smith and Pocahontas. We’re withholding judgment until we actually see the film, but we thought that John brought up some very important issues […]

JC & CVK
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 11:
RANT:
People’s obsession with classifying and reclassifying mixed people is the subject of Jen’s rant today.
NOTE FROM US:
Sorry […]

JC
Stockdale is a new fictional release by author Priscilla Lalisse. The press release I came across describes it as a tale of encouragement — I guess it would be good to see some of that every now and then — between the hopeless cautionary tales with which we have become so accustomed!
During the 1980s […]

JC
Bloomberg.com reports on the death of Richard Pryor. He is recognized as one of the first people to really deal with race in comedic acts in the 70s and early 80s. He paved the way for other comics like Eddie Murphy to do the same.
Pryor died of a heart attack this morning at […]

CVK
The San Francisco police department is embroiled in a scandal involving a series of videos produced by Officer Andrew “Drew” Cohen, vignettes that Chief Heather Fong and Mayor Gavin Newsom said “range from immature to vulgar to sexist, racist and homophobic.”
The videos include a black homeless woman being run over by a patrol car, a […]

JC
National Nine News in Australia talks with Dichen Lachman, a new television star in Australia. She is the 23 year old daughter of a Tibetan mother and an Australian father. She talks about her hopes for her new role on the show, Neighbours.
The ambitious actor now hopes her new role on Neighbours will pave […]

JC
I came across a press release on PRWeb for a kids book that actually came out a year ago, but is being promoted for the holiday season. Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow presents a story about a family that includes white dad, black mom, and mixed daughter, and they are just another family. The story […]

CVK
(Thanks to Luke for this one!) I don’t know what Ice Cube has been smoking, but this show sounds like it’s gonna be AWFUL. From Yahoo! News:
A black family learns what it’s like to be white while a white family becomes black in the six-part documentary series “Black.White,” scheduled for broadcast on the FX cable […]

CVK
I really don’t know how to respond to this piece in the New York Press, written by a white woman explaining (in gross, explicit detail) why she CRAVES sex with black men. All I can say is ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! I’m amazed that she doesn’t have a problem at all with the fact that she’s completely objectifying […]

CVK
Oh hell no. The trend of white boys in literal or figurative blackface continues. First we told you about the Kill Whitey parties. Then we told about the rash of “thug” or “gangsta” parties spreading across predominantly white high schools and colleges. Now comes perhaps the worst case of this flaunting-of-white-privilege-disguised-as-hipster-irony bull. Sorry everyone, but […]

CVK

Hey - good to see we’re not the only ones who have a problem with the way people use the word “exotic” to describe women of color! Blog fourfour always does HILARIOUS recaps of America’s Next Top Model, and if you have a look at the comments following its recap of Wednesday’s finale episode, there’s […]

JC

The Tuscon Citizen just ran an interview of Usher by Associated Press writer, Alicia Quarles. They talk about his new flick, “In the Mix.” Since we just posted something about the film recently, and there isn’t much new here about it in this article (this article is really only interesting if for some reason you […]

CVK
The Colorado Daily News discusses a new class being offered at University of Colorado, part of the growing field of “Whiteness Studies.”
According to the course syllabus, Whiteness Studies is spent “looking at white racial identity and its impact on society.” It is taught through a combination of “in-depth study, lively discussions, written and oral assignments, […]

JC
Ok. If Carmen gets to post side-by-side pictures of Mariah and the cowardly lion (lol), I get to post about mutts. Our animal counterparts. This article in the Fort Wayne News Sentinal talks about a new “breed” of dogs. I don’t know much about animals, so perhaps this isn’t really ground-breaking, but dogs and […]

CVK
Saw this on Pink Is the New Blog and I was ROLLING on the floor!

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CVK
The Korea Times writes about the rising popularity of mixed celebrities in Korea, focusing in particular on three entertainers: Daniel Henney (pictured), Dennis O and Kim Deanna:
A few years ago, there was a male duo with one member being Korean-American of mixed heritage. But they failed to become popular since until that time, people’s prejudice […]

CVK
There are a couple mixed artists out there who need your support right now! All you have to do is click on the links below and cast an online vote!
From Angry Asian Man:
I’m a big fan of filmmaker Greg Pak. Over the years, his career has reached over to work as an accomplished comic book […]

JC & CVK
Check out our first-ever 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. Here’s what we talk about in this episode:
What are some common myths about mixed people? Jen and Carmen discuss what they […]