Aiming for Diversity, Textbooks Overshoot - WSJ.com
… publishers set numerical targets for showing minorities and the disabled… Moreover, in filling these quotas, publishers screen out a wide range of images they deem stereotypical, from Asian math students to barefoot African children…
(tags: raciststereotypes education)

The Race Has Spoken - blac(k)ademic
“survivor, already has its problems, since the premise […]

CVK
Ah our favorite cliche rears its ugly head again, this time in the U.K. From icSouthLondon, emphasis mine:

CRYSTAL Palace chairman Simon Jordan says claims he is a drug-taking racist are “non-sense”.
The tycoon soccer boss is embroiled in a court case with ex-lover Tara Stout, 35, over allegations she harassed him, threatened his family and bombarded […]

Tragic Mulatto Myth and Race is Not Culture - Rachel’s Tavern
“…many people who come from monoracial backgrounds are uncomfortable with interracial relationships and multiracial people, so they assume that because they are uncomfortable that the mixed race person must also be uncomfortable…”
(tags: mixedrace interracialrelationships)

anti-stereotypes as a brand identity - Hyphen Blog
“…Volkswagen’s ad folks certainly keep […]

CVK
(Thanks to Johnny for this tip!) I seriously hope this is just a wacked-out rumor that’s going around the blogosphere. According to reality blurred, the next season of Survivor will split up the cast into four tribes so that each racial group competes against each other! WTF?
There have been persistent rumors, supported by photographs […]

CVK
As we mentioned on Monday, Spike Lee’s new documentary on the Katrina disaster aired this week on HBO. According to Alternet, ABC may have “sanitized” his interview on “This Week” to strip out all critical comments towards the Bush Administration. Click over to the site to see the videos:
In video one (the top video to […]

JC & CVK
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The host of GOP Exposed calls in with a voicemail, asking […]

How to Raise a Black Son - Christina, Downloaded
“I am only just beginning to understand what it means to be a Black man in this country. It’s not something I’ll ever experience, but I need to get as close to it as possible. I am the mother of a Black son.”
(tags: africanamerican black caucasian white […]

JC
If you have been sucked into the whole Cosby vs. Dyson debate (e.g. why are black people in the predicament they are in), then you might be interested to know that the same things are being discussed in the UK. In fact, it seems like there is a Cosby there, but in the form of […]

CVK
Head on over to Rachel’s Tavern to check it out. She was kind enough to include a post from MMW. Oh and check out the comments section… Lyonside is in rare form.

JC
HBO watchers, check out Spike Lee’s new documentary on the Katrina disaster, When the Levees Broke: a Requiem in Four Acts on HBO tonight and Tuesday night at 9, Eastern and Pacific times; 8, Central time.
A powerful chorus of witnesses and talking heads that cuts across racial and class lines was assembled for the four-hour […]

JC
As we’ve mentioned, Carmen was recently invited to speak at the BlogHer Conference in San Jose, CA. BlogHer’s mission is to create opportunities for women bloggers to pursue exposure, education, and community. Carmen was a panelist for a session on “Identity and Obligation,” along with Karen Walrond from Chookooloonks, Maria Niles from Fizz, Dawn Rouse […]

LL (a returning MMW contributor!)
Popular vlogger paytotheorderofof2 “Emily” has a video up that talks about her recent personal experiences with what is basically her racist family’s (minus the sister, assumably) position on Emily dating someone of a different race.
If you don’t want to watch the entire vlog (which is all text and music, funny enough), […]

MTV’s New Blaxploitation (Yo Momma) - Dr. Marc Lamont Hill
“…the dozens began as an inside practice with complex rules and rituals. Although the focus was often on the participants’ mothers, the jokes were always dripping with irony, given the pedastal on which Black mothers have been historically positioned.
(tags: caucasian africanamerican white culturalappropriation hatespeech raciststereotypes)

Blacks […]

JC
Much of the debate around the state of black America has been in the form of a showdown between big names like Bill Cosby and Michael Eric Dyson. Enter contender #3, Juan Williams. He is the author of the newly released Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black […]

The Formula For Yum - ASIAN POP
“And for Asians, perhaps more so than any other set of cultures, food is love. No one has expressed this sentiment better than Ang Lee, in his wonderful early work “Eat Drink Man Woman.”…”
(tags: asian asianamerican food)

Black Macho Disturbed - SeeingBlack.com
Luther Vandross countered prevailing notions of “Black Macho” and […]

CVK
Someone just left this comment on an old post:

Name: chocolate lover | E-mail: [redacted] | IP: [redacted]I am a athletic white guy who is very attractive and absolutely love black woman…. sorry they rule!… They have the best asses and the best bodies and the best smiles… and I like their firey attitudes!Posted Aug 17, […]

CVK
Quite a few people have pointed us to this New York Times article on transracial adoption today. (Thanks daddyinastrangeland, Naro% and Takara!) I haven’t had much time to formulate any intelligent thoughts on this yet, so I’m just going to paste some excerpts here for your review.
I am quite struck by the main photo used […]

Chinese make their mark in Caribbean - The Toronto Star
Photo exhibit in Toronto on diversity in the Caribbean. The Chinese were shipped to the islands as indentured workers to fill the labour needs in plantations after the emancipation in the early 1800s.
(tags: asian diaspora caribbean)

Institutional racism denies jobs to black people, says employment expert - […]

JC
Pun intended. So shoot me — I’m corny and I couldn’t resist. Listen to this doozy…. BET reports on a Minnesota black woman’s claim against Wal-Mart. Gayle Bryant used a personal check to pay for her $93.00 bill. The staff hemmed and hawed about how they couldn’t accept it. The manager finally takes it […]

JCI just posted an article that discussed the military and how it is thought of as one of the more open and accepting parts of our society when it comes to interracial unions and race relations. Here’s another piece (this one is an opinion piece) that is basically echoing the same thing. Call me suspicious, […]