JC
Variety reports on a new role for Charlize Theron. The Ice at the Bottom of the World will be a drama that Theron will both star in and produce. Production starts later this year. Sounds like it will be quite the drama!
It’s set in the Chesapeake Bay, where a Navy captain reluctantly retires for health […]

JC
Last week, Bryan Schwartz, writer and photographer, was on the Leonard Lopate show on WNYC to talk about the diversity within Judaism. The segment was entitled Scattered Among the Nations. You may listen to the show here.
Throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Jews of color are working to maintain the religion and culture of their […]

JC
The News and Observer reviews Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley and Alison Saar, the artwork of one mother and her two daughters.
The mother and daughters share mixed-race heritage — Betye has European, African-American and Native American roots, and her daughters’ father, the late painter and conservator Richard Saar, is of German and Scottish […]

JC
Ok. I am going out on a limb here for MMW. Never would I normally admit to watching MTV’s Room Raiders – and I can’t even call it a guilty pleasure since there is hardly anything very pleasing about it. Each episode is pretty much a replica of the next with very little […]

CVK
New York hip hop station Hot 97’s DJ Miss Jones got herself into hot water AGAIN a few weeks back during the Transit strike that took place in NYC, when she called TWU president Roger Toussaint a “dumb coconut who probably don’t even have a green card.” She also enacted a skit where he was […]

JC

What’s with all of the experiments lately? I guess this is what we like to do, huh? Change people’s races…throw a white person into a black household — all in the name of really opening up everyone’s eyes, right? Well, Dr. Phil’s show today centered on racists — and trying to figure out how […]

CVK
Anchorage Daily News has an article about “Black Indians,” a one-hour documentary that launches the second annual Native Film Festival:
If you were Native American, you were dispossessed. If you were African-American, you were enslaved. And if you just happened to be a mixed-race descendant of the two minorities, it was possible to suffer the worst […]

CVK
Here are some other stories worth checking out.
Between Two Worlds: Born in the U.S.A. to Asian Parents, a Generation of Immigrants’ Kids Forges a New Identity - Time magazine’s pretty decent piece on Asian-American identity today (thanks, Phil C!). Talks about stuff we’re all familiar with: the model minority myth, being perceived as exotic, the […]

CVK
And he’s having sex with a white girl, no less? Hell has officially frozen over, folks! There’s been a lot of buzz about NBC’s new show, “The Book of Daniel.” I haven’t checked it out yet, but it sounds promising. TRA=transracially adopted. Here’s some info on the show from our good friend Eric Hamako:
I just […]

CVK
EURWeb.com reports that Alicia Keys is helming a television project:
UPN has announced that it’s given the green light to develop a drama series loosely based on the life of Alicia Keys. The network says the coming-of-age story will follow a girl from a biracial family like Keys. The singer, 24, was born to a white […]

CVK
Great analysis on Gawker today by special correspondent The Assimilated Negro. He rips apart an article just published in the New York Observer about how absurdly white the magazine industry is. Here’s his take on the excuses given by the various editors quoted in the piece:
“Several industry professionals traced this silence to the fact that […]

CVK

You know you’ve been waiting for it - Kimora Lee Simmons blesses us with a tome of wisdom. From Gawker:
A fabulous source over at fabulous Kirkus Reviews and the equally fabulous Book Standard passes along just-finalized cover to fabulous Kimora Lee Simmons’s fabulously forthcoming tome, Fabulousity: What It Is and How to Get It. Prepare […]

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 12:
RANT:
The stupid stereotypes about Asian men and women perpetuated by the media is the subject of Carmen’s […]

CVK
A recent New York Times opinion piece by Nick Chiles entitled “Their Eyes Were Reading Smut” has sparked some debates in the blogosphere. Chiles complains about the fact that bookstore chains like Borders not only relegate works of African-American literature to their own section, but in that section combine “serious” literature (Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison) […]

CVK
Nice find from Crunk and Disorderly. Apparently when you go to Wal-Mart’s site to purchase a box set of “Planet of the Apes: The TV Series,” it lists as “similar items” the following titles:
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
and
Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream / Assassination of MLK
Yet again, primates are associated with black people. […]

JC
The Australian predicts what kind of models will be popular this year. Really? The mixed look will be in? Go figure.
The era of the leggy, bronzed Brazillian (although Gisele is back as the face of Louis Vuitton for spring ‘06) ended in 2005 as fashion turned towards the malnourished look from eastern Europe […]

JC
Florida State University took a look at interracial interactions through a study which examined the types of interactions people had with people of another race, measured against their initial expectations of what those interactions would be like. So, those who had low/negative expectations tended to stay away from people of x race and had less […]

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Thanks to Myra for the tip on the latest American Girl addition! Jess, the new “Girl of the Year” is a mixed sista! It’s interesting that this popular doll/book company that seems to have the attention of many young girls is presenting a mixed race doll. It’s nice to see that Jess is being […]

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The 2006 Bloggies are back! If you remember, last year we were nominated for the “Best-Kept Secret” category. Please consider visiting this page and voting for Mixed Media Watch and Addicted to Race in the following categories:
Best Topical Weblog
Mixed Media Watch http://www.mixedmediawatch.com
Best Podcast of a Weblog
Addicted to Race - http://www.addictedtorace.com
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We’re excited to announce the launch of a brand-new workshop series from New Demographic on parenting mixed kids! It will be held in NYC on 4 consecutive Saturday afternoons: Jan 14, 21, 28 and Feb 4. Please visit www.parentingmixedkids.com for more details. Register today because space is limited!
Has your mixed race child ever […]