CVK
(Thanks to Eric for his email to us about this!) Last night’s episode of “The L Word” revealed that Bette (a black/white mixed character played by real-life mixie, Jennifer Beals) is going to try to obtain sole custody over her child with ex-girlfriend Tina (both pictured here in happier days). Tina is the biological mother […]

JC
Here’s another story - in SFGate - that explores the increasing demand for “ambiguous” looking models. Apparently, as the article points out, there is a growing field of model agencies that sell “real people.” 
Many model agencies in town have “real people” components, but the field seems to be heating up. “The public has become more and more skeptical […]

JC
Ahhh, Kip. I really want to like this (because I know you must have good intentions — I LOVE your other work, specifically your films — and I know some of the people who are going to be in the book), but I can’t.I mean, perhaps my mind will be changed once I get […]

JC
Entertainment Weekly took a look at some rarely heard Steely Dan tracks and I caught glimpse of this one:
”Haitian Divorce” (The Royal Scam, 1976)
Musical comedy at its finest: A fresh young divorcée has some celebratory sex in foreign climes and winds up with a mixed-race baby to show for it. Well, it’s funnier than it sounds. […]

JC
A Million Nightingales is Susan Straight’s new novel about Moinette, a girl born to a slave woman raped by a white sugar broker who was visiting the plantation. The book takes a look at what it meant to be “mixed blood” in antebellum Louisiana:
…castes are so well established that every drop of mixed blood is […]

CVK
I highly recommend Derik Smith’s column in the Black Commentator on Crash. He really puts into words a lot of the things I felt about the movie, but couldn’t articulate. Actually, I’m a little jealous that I didn’t write this myself. Definitely click over to read the entire column, but here are some tidbits.

What […]

CVK
(Thanks to Phil C for this tip!) Jeff Yang just wrote a great Asian Pop column for SFGate.com titled “The Man Show.” He shares his ruminations on Asian American identity, love, sex, and masculinity, interspersed with quotes from his interview with Eric Byler (pictured) about his new film Americanese. It’s definitely worth reading in its entirety but as […]

CVK
Tonight’s Nanny 911 on Fox is going to feature a mixed family, The Georges (pictured). Now I realize I may be reading way too much into it, but I can’t help but think that their choice of words on the Web site to describe the family is interesting. Why a prison metaphor? Because dude is […]

CVK
Speaking of blackface and cultural appropriation, there’s a fascinating article on Slate.com about Hasidic Jewish reggae vocalist Matisyahu. Slate’s music critic Jody Rosen first eviscerates him for putting on figurative blackface but then asks, is it really such a big deal since Jamaicans has taken freely from Jewish culture as well? Honestly I never […]

CVK
(Thanks to Susan for this!) Slate.com’s advice columns, Ask Prudence, tackles a question us mixed folks are all too familiar with: “What are you?” You can read the exact question here, but I thought her answer was pretty decent:
Dear L.A.,
I talked with two friends of mixed heritage about this. (”Hi, since you’re so exotic-looking, could […]

CVK
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
In These Times
“Leary adapts our understanding of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to propose that African Americans today suffer from a particular kind of intergenerational trauma: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS). The systematic dehumanization of African slaves was the initial trauma, explains Leary, and generations of their descendents have borne the scars. Since […]

CVK
This week’s episode of CSI Miami had me CRACKING up! It involved a guy who was suspected of murdering his wife. As the episode unfolded, the whole story was revealed. Basically, he married her after knowing her for only a month. It wasn’t until after they were married that he found out her mom was […]

CVK
(Thanks to Mashadi, Sue and Geraly for the tips!) Just a heads-up that two different magazines this month have features related to mixed people. O magazine’s April issue (that’s Oprah’s magazine) has a three-parter:
1) Mix It Up, featuring men and women with a mixture of diverse backgrounds
2) Harmonic Convergences,  about mixed race/religious/ethnic families
3) a piece […]

JC & CVK
Please bear with us as we fix some stuff on the site… it should look like the old site you’re familiar with soon. Thanks for your patience.

CVK
Just watched the Project Runway finale last night and it turns out Santino is mixed! His mom (who’s presumably black or mixed) came to cheer him on during the final runway show and he was gushing over her. It was cute, and also nice that it was yet another neutral depiction. They didn’t make a […]

CVK
Haven’t had a chance to formulate any coherent opinions/analyses on these yet, but wanted to get them down before I forgot.
Stereotypes get shot down
USA Today
“Busting stereotype and reinventing one’s self has a long tradition in the USA. But social scientists and trend watchers say the change is spreading and accelerating, speeding the country toward […]

JC & CVK
We know that the technology behind podcasting is still not incredibly user-friendly. So for those of you who haven’t had a chance to listen to our show yet because you couldn’t be bothered with downloading or subscribing or any of that stuff, there’s now a much easier way!
If you visit the Addicted to […]

CVK

On yesterday’s episode of Oprah, she interviewed Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker, stars of the new film “Something New” and talked to some real-life interracial couples.
The segment was light-hearted and humorous, so I give them props for at least not succumbing to the usual daytime talk show treatment of the subject, i.e. “I was beaten […]

JC & CVK
So Black.White. finally debuted last night. We already heard from Ben - you can read his full comment here but below is an excerpt:
The clearest message from this show is that color is only half the battle… There’s a cultural gulf between (stereo)”typical” black and white families (and they both described themselves as […]

JC
I feel like Thandie looks in this picture after getting wind of this. Apparently the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights is all excited about Crash winning an Oscar as well! So excited about Crash that they gave the film their own award!
LCCR announced in December that it would honor Lionsgate’s extraordinary film “Crash,” co-written […]