Just saw this over at Rachel’s Tavern.
Irrational Point is Hosting the Third Erase Racism Carnival!! Here is her call for submissions:
The carnival will be up here on the 20th of July and it would be great if I could have your submissions by noon on the 17th of July (British Summer Time). Posts can be […]

CVK
Comedy Central show recently launched a new show called Dog Bites Man. The show describes itself as “an outrageous, part improvisational, single-camera show featuring a group of dysfunctional fake newscasters interacting with real people in a documentary-style format.” It’s sort of a cross between the Ali G. Show (actually I think it’s the same producer) […]

AAS (a new MMW guest contributor!)
The July 2006 issue of Esquire has a number of articles on “The State of the American Man” one of which was written by Aaron McGruder, creator of The Boondocks comic strip. McGruder’s take on the state of the American black man (their lower case) was a”survey ” with questions […]

jordisgirl (a new MMW guest contributor!)
I just noticed the new VW Rabbit commercial…the premise is that they reproduce “quickly”, of course, rapidly growing from the first two or four cars into a whole city-full. However, I couldn’t help but notice that the original couple were black & white and some of the offspring were white […]

CVK
Sorry folks, this is gonna be a long one because it’s important. If you’d like to weigh in after reading this post, I’d encourage you to post your thoughts on Almost Girl’s blog. Hopefully it’ll spark some important conversations there so we’re not just talking about it here on MMW.
I blogged on Friday about the […]

CVK
The latest issue (July 1, 2006) of Maclean’s, a Canadian weekly news magazine, includes an article about color-blind casting in TV commercials and movies. The writer, Kevin Chong, was kind enough to contact us while writing the piece, and I’m quoted in the last paragraph:
Within the films, too, race remains a factor. Harold and Kumar […]

CVK
I’ve been reading lots of good stuff lately from other blogs. Here’s a round-up:
Pirates of the Caribbean II and The Tradition of Racial Oppression
from Ally Work
“I realize now that the portrayal of the Kalinago in Pirates of the Caribbean is continuing the images of the “savage cannibals” used to subjugate indigenous peoples since the […]

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KT (a returning MMW guest contributor!)
Sunday night on 60 minutes, baseball superstar Derek Jeter discussed his youth, his family, and being taunted as a child for being biracial. He is the son of an African-American father and an Irish-American mother.
Jeter says it continued even after he had been drafted number #1 by the Yankees. The […]

JM (a new MMW guest contributor!)
Broken Trail, a mini-series on AMC, is the story of two cowboys who become the reluctant guardians of five Chinese women who have been smuggled into the US. There is focus on the reality of Chinese Immigrants in 19th century America (i.e. that a number of women were […]

CVK
(Thanks to Geraly for this tip!) The June 2006 issue of Essence magazine featured an article titled “Looking for Mr. White,” based on the results of a survey the magazine did, polling their readers about attitudes towards interracial relationships. You can read the article in its entirety here.
Sounds like Essence was surprised by what they […]

JC & CVK
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ROUNDTABLE ON BEING MIXED BUT LOOKING WHITE
Jen hosts another Addicted to Race roundtable. This time, she talks to Ben Jackson and John Wogan […]

CVK
(Thanks to Tariq and Matt for this!) That’s the question posed by The Toronto Star in an article they published over the weekend about the mixed race community in Toronto. MMW is briefly mentioned in the article.
It’s interesting that the photo they used to illustrate the article is done Kip Fulbeck-style - all naked shoulders […]

CVK
I’ve really been digging Jenn’s (not Chau) posts over at Reappropriate. Here are some of my recent favorites:
The Miseducation of Dave Chapelle
“Lola Ogunnaike of the New York Times Arts section paints a picture of Dave Chappelle as being confused, unable to articulate the reason he left in a series of high-profile interviews… Here’s the […]

CVK
The Guardian reviews the new book The Bloodstone Papers by Glen Duncan, who has a lot to say about the current penchant in the U.K. for mixed race writers:
Glen Duncan is a writer from a Catholic, Anglo-Indian background whose previous novels have dealt with sexual guilt, dark mortifications of the flesh and reincarnations of […]

CVK
It’s hard to tell from this blog, but believe it or not, I do have interests other than race.
One of those interests happens to be fashion. That’s right, scoff all you want, but I love my Vogue and my Bazaar (sorry, Johnny) and my Lucky and my FashionTribes.com and my Style.com.
Usually the […]

CVK
Interesting dilemma, from the New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist column:
I am an anesthesiologist at a metropolitan hospital. A patient scheduled for an operation one day requested a female anesthesiologist, a request we were inclined to honor. When the anesthesiologist’s name was given to the patient, she wondered if the anesthesiologist was African-American. When told that […]

CVK
A sincere thank you goes out to Kaushal for sending us a link to this must-read blog post from The Jay. The title of this post? Keanu Reeves Does NOT Suck, And I Can Prove It The Jay offers 40 — that’s right, four-zero — reasons to support his argument. And no, this is […]

CVK
(Thanks to Kaushal for the tip!) As you may remember, I interviewed writer Angela Nissel in episode 24 of Addicted to Race about her memoir Mixed : My Life in Black and White. Well, that book may very well become a comedy series on HBO, thanks to executive producer Halle Berry. From EURWeb:

Halle […]

CVK
Mixed Race Couple Comes Out After 13 Years
An interracial couple in Leeds, England have been on the run for 13 years, having sought and received protection, new identities and new residences at least 30 times.
White parents get mixed race test tube babies
More IVF fun! A white couple in the U.K. who had tried for a […]