JC
The Pasadena Weekly’s theme this week is “Blurring the Color Lines” — it featured a cover story on a mixed family and included some other pieces that revolved around mixed identity. Check out Jon Lewis-Katz’s article about growing up mixed. He talks about the common experience of people constantly questioning whether he belonged to his […]

CVK
Sounds like someone’s been reading too much Kama Sutra! Blog Feministe draws attention to this creep’s post on Ask Metafilter:
How do I find a Hindu bride? I will be going to India within the nearest future, and I would like to find a Hindu woman for marriage / children / life together / etc. […]

CVK
A new play titled “Offspring” is running this month and it sounds fascinating! It’s a production of the Negro Ensemble Company at the 45th Street Theater and is written by Jimmy Barden. Here’s what The New York Times had to say:
Grace (Janice Marie) and her brother Walker (Brad Holbrook) run a charitable foundation created by […]

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Brownstone Magazine, which bills itself as “NYU’s source for marginalized and minoritarian issues” has an interesting analysis of the show My Name is Earl. The sitcom simultaneously celebrates what writer Matt Buchanan calls “white trash aesthetics” while discarding the more offensive aspects of “white trash aesthetics,” namely, racism and homophobia. Is the show just trying […]

CVK

Awwww yeah! The new season of America’s Next Top Model starts tonight, and it sounds like there will be plenty of drama, controversy, and bitchiness–which is of course what makes the show so darn entertaining! Here’s a preview from the Boston Herald:
Jade, a biracial New Yorker and perhaps the most annoying, will remind viewers of […]

JC
We have been eagerly awaiting the debut of Black.White. for what feels like years now. It debuts tonight. Carmen and I have been lucky enough to view advance copies, but I am dying to hear what others of you think! Personally, I think it has tons of holes and doesn’t nearly acheive what […]

CVK
Darryl James just wrote a great column for EURWeb.com about how angry he is that the image of the black male is “under attack” in America. In some places his commentary comes dangerously close to sounding homophobic, particularly when he’s complaining about how the “diminishing and effeminization of the Black male.”
The Black man in drag […]

CVK
Sadly, there’s another case to add to our long list of hate crimes against interracial couples. WBAY-TV reports that a couple in Wisconsin returned from vacation to find their house burnt down, and a racial epithet spraypainted on a car nearby:
A Manitowoc County couple returned from a vacation overseas to find their home completely gutted […]

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Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth: A Novel and On Beauty, has received a lot of bad press over the years. She’s frequently portrayed as cocky, aloof, and well, bitchy. The latest article on Smith continues to paint a not-so-pretty picture. From the U.K.’s Telegraph:
Zadie Smith is to resume her tricky relationship with the Orange […]

CVK

It’s definitely worth checking out blogger TheThink’s analysis on the issue of “racial ownership.” He starts his post by saying that it bothers him when Asian-Americans sometimes go overboard in making fun of “Westerners” who get tattoos of Asian characters with no idea what they actually mean. Asians are quick to mock people who appropriate […]

CVK
Military publication Stars & Stripes reports that an interracial couple in South Korea will be the subject of a new reality TV show:
Not an uncommon tale of love and marriage but theirs will be one a lot of people will soon become intimate with. From Monday through Thursday, South Korean TV station KBS2 will chronicle […]

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LOL! From Gawker.com

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Is it just me or did last night’s Oscars feel like a loooooong session of Hollywood congratulating itself for being oh-so-open-minded about race? First came George Clooney’s speech about how yes, Hollywood may be out of touch, but maybe that’s a good thing. Because Hollywood was talking loudly about AIDS when others were just “whispering” […]

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 18:
RANT:
The sensationalism surrounding the recently born U.K. twins (”one black! one white!”) and the upcoming race-swapping reality […]

CVK
Stop the presses! Black women are flocking in DROVES to date white men, according to Oprah! Okay I’m exaggerating, but I wanted to give everyone a heads-up that this Wednesday, Oprah will have the cast of “Something New” on her show (thanks to Myra for the tip!). And she’s definitely playing up “trend” angle. Check […]

CVK
Apologies to everyone who has sent in tips about this article - I’ve known about it for awhile and kept meaning to write about it, but somehow it fell through the cracks. So sorry that this is a couple months behind schedule, but here we go.
The Jan/Feb issue of Psychology Today magazine included […]

CVK
There’s an interesting opinion piece in Macalester College’s school paper, written by two young women who attend the school, asking that the institution think about diversity in its student body in a more nuanced way. They use themselves as examples of why traditional ideas of diversity simply don’t hold true anymore. One is of mixed […]

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Good Lord. There’s an entire LiveJournal community of people who post pictures of themselves so that others can “guess” their “mixture.” Here’s how the founder of the community defends, erm, describes the site:
Guess My Mixture! is a fun photo community created so that people of all ethnicities (mixed or unmixed - all are welcome!) can […]

JC
And the Hines Ward fascination, obsession, and fixation continues… Chron.com reports that he is planning a trip to Korea with his mom to get back to his roots. He hopes that people will be as welcoming in person as they have been since he won the MVP title after his team, the Steelers, won […]

CVK
More Kimora news - you know you love it. A couple readers had told us about Kimora Lee Simmons appearing on The Today Show last week but neither Jen nor I caught it. Now thanks to the wonders of YouTube, you can watch it for yourself! Click here for the video.
Kimora was on mainly […]