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Jump in on the heated discussions happening in the comments sections of Mixed Media Watch! Here are today’s most talked-about posts:
Oprah interviews ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ castmembers
Merq: …what really bothered me was the reaction to Washington’s confession that he’d vowed never to play another thug. They applauded him like he was making this great decision not to […]

 LL (returning MMW guest contributor!)
Tameka Jacobs, one of the models on “Deal Or No Deal?” has been in the news recently:
KCRA 3’s Rich Ibarra first met Jacobs just outside Stockton in 1983. She was just 3 years old and had been living in a foster home. Mary Brown had raised Jacobs since she was 4 […]

Darla (a new MMW guest contributor!)
According to a recent Associated Press article that ran on MSNBC.com, Westwood High School in Mesa, Arizona, has banned their American Indian students from wearing eagle feathers on their graduation caps during their graduation ceremony.
The article also explains that the eagle feather is a rite-of-passage for many native youths from […]

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On Friday’s episode of Oprah, she interviewed a couple of cast members from Grey’s Anatomy: Ellen Pompeo, who plays Dr. Meredith Grey, and Isaiah Washington, who plays Dr. Preston Burke.
They talked about how ground-breaking the show was in terms of the color-blind casting, etc.
One thing I was struck by, however, was that the show seemed to […]

 
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Just spotted this over at Angry Asian Man. I had no idea there was a movie in the works! Or that Kal Penn had nabbed the part! (Penn is best-known for playing Kumar in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: a movie I loved, but it’s great that he’s broken out of the comedy […]

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MIXED MEDIA WATCH NEWS UPDATE
Carmen discusses three recent news items from Mixed Media Watch. First, an article posits that South Asian women are […]

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As you may remember, Jen and I absolutely LOVED the movie “Something New.” Finally - a movie about interracial relationships that doesn’t melodramatize the subject or insult our intelligence! And when’s the last time you saw a movie — let alone a romantic comedy — that actually faced white privilege head-on? You can hear our […]

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I just read on Angry Asian Man that a movie based on the 1970s TV series “Kung Fu” is in the works:
Legendary Pictures has acquired the film rights to the 1970s TV series Kung Fu. Yeah, as in Kung Fu, the show starring white guy David Carradine as Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine: Kung Fu […]

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(Many thanks to Brittney for unearthing this gem!) Asiana is an online magazine for South Asians in the U.K. and ran this article — a roundtable of various women’s views on dating black men. It’s pretty clear just from glancing at the page that the publication completely buys into the sexual stereotypes of black men. […]

Nina (a new MMW guest contributor!)
Ignore the lukewarm reviews (and try to avoid the major plot points critics always seem to give up) and check out 12 and Holding, a bittersweet movie about four 12 year olds struggling to define themselves.  
One of the main characters is a young girl named Malee Chung, daughter of […]

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Here’s a round-up of links to articles worth checking out. Thanks to Corey, Tariq and T, respectively!
Introducing Multilingual Living Magazine!
“We look forward to Multilingual Living becoming an integral part of your life. We hope to make it your trusted, intelligent resource for living multilingual and multicultural lives. Our goal at Multilingual Living is to empower YOU […]

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I was reading Teen Vogue (yes I know I’m pushing 30, but I just can’t resist the pocket-size format and the cute clothes!) and saw a review of this new artist from the U.K. — Corinne Bailey Rae. I googled her and came across this article:

Joints from the likes of Steve Spacek and Massive Attack prove […]

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(Thanks to Crunk + Disorderly for this!) According to The Sun in the U.K., Halle Berry would love to play Angela Davis in a movie:
“So many people think she’s not a very sympathetic character but as I get older I’ve learnt everybody is sympathetic if you understand why they do whatever they do. Everybody is […]

CVK
Wow. This new flick “The Lake House” looks so god-awful even I (Keanu’s number-one fan) don’t want to see it. Here’s the plot summary from IMDB.com:
A lonely doctor (Sandra Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect (Keanu Reeves). When they discover that they’re […]

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I was watching CNN this morning and they were doing a story on the trial of John Allen Muhammed, the man accused of sniper attacks in 2002. John Lee Malvo is the young man who was allegedly his apprentice/partner in the attacks, and I swear to god within a two-minute story, the word “articulate” was […]

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(Thanks to Geraly for this tip!) Last month, we told you about a legal battle brewing in the Philadelphia suburb of Chester County as a white couple claims they were forbidden from adopting their foster son because he was black.
The Philadelphia Inquirer digs a little deeper into the thorny issue of transracial adoption in this […]

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(Thanks to Tariq for this tip!) I had no idea mixed people weren’t allow to be cops in Korea, but apparently it’s so. Chalk another one up to the Hines Ward effect, but according to The Korea Times, The National Police Agency has announced that mixed race Koreans would now be allowed to serve as […]

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(Thanks to Brad for this!) I stopped watching this show after the first season ended, so I can’t really comment on its current status. However, the Chicago Sun-Times TV critic Doug Elfman has quite a bit to say about the show’s season finale, including its elements of racial bigotry? Here are some excerpts from his column:
In […]

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I just read this review in Xtra, Toronto’s gay and lesbian weekly paper, of “All Aboard: Rosie’s Family Cruise,” a documentary about the cruise for queer families that Rosie O’Donnell founded:
The film follows lesbian and gay mothers and fathers and their children as they talk about their experiences, attend seminars on parenting, disembark to homophobic […]

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Sheffield is the first and only city in England so far that has a service specifically designed to provide support services to children and teenagers of mixed heritage:
A key objective of the service is also to raise pupils’ self-esteem, to boost their hopes and aspirations and especially improve their results, both in SATs and at […]