JC & CVK
Well it took awhile but we finally finished our big move. Check us out at www.racialicious.com! We’re going to disable comments on this blog so head on over to our new blog if you’d like to comment!

JC & CVK

Loyal readers, we’re going to need a bit more time for our make-over/relaunch of Mixed Media Watch. Stay tuned…we are hoping that we will just be a day delayed. Thanks for your patience! We want to make sure that all is just right before unveiling. Thanks!

Black GOPers run racially-tinged radio ad - MSNBC.com
“A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim King researchers challenge…”
(tags: africanamerican politics civilrights)

Live-Blogging Survivor: Cook Islands, ep. 2 - reappropriate
Another hilarious installment of Jenn’s live-blogging. […]

JC & CVK
Just a reminder that Mixed Media Watch is getting a new look, a new name, and a new domain, and the process will begin tonight. So if you check the site tonight or later this weekend, it will probably be down. And if you check back on Monday morning and it’s still down, […]

CVK
Here’s another installment of our Time Machine series… when we take a look back at what we were blogging about a year ago this month.
MIXED RACE STUDENTS IN THE CLASSROOM
Appropriately enough for back-to-school season, Jen wrote an article offering advice for teachers who have mixed race students in their classroom:
“What I am suggesting is that […]

CVK
For some reason our links didn’t post automatically this morning, so I’m copying and pasting them manually here. Forgive the less-than-perfect formatting.
Elise Neal’s Assorted Flavors - Brown Sista
Ugh… sometime actress Elise Neal (”All of Us”) has formed a new girl group a la Pussycat Dolls. And what did she name it? “Assorted Flavors.” […]

JC
So did y’all catch the season premiere of Grey’s Anatomy? While certain characters make me want to rip my hair out cough-Meredith-cough, I have to admit, I love it. I think it’s my way of healing since my break-up with ER years ago. Plus the ridiculous and inappropriate drama that goes on in that […]

CVK
Spotted this on Gawker yesterday. I don’t know what they’re smoking over at The Independent. Why on earth would they think it’s a good idea to illustrate “the Africa issue” with a picture of a white model in blackface?
Here’s the front of today’s Independent (UK), guest-designed by Giorgio Armani. We’ve very little to add, save […]

CVK
Go check it out at Black Looks. It’s a really great collection of stuff, including one item from MMW. Thanks for that, Sokari!

Transracial Adoption, Interracial Families and Social Change - Rachel’s Tavern
“…The current liberal discourse sets up TR/IR families as “celebrations of diversity” or the “promise of the future,” but this is problematic for several reasons…”
(tags: interracialrelationships transracialadoption family parenting)

Race study pays off in genius grant - Chicago Sun-Times
(thanks daddyinastrangeland!) “The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur […]

JC
If you could give a diversity award to any cable media outlet, would MTV come to mind first? The Walter Kaitz Foundation says why yes! Advocacy group, Industry Ears says aw hell NO! I caught sight of this article which reports on the foundation’s decision to honor MTV this year, and the following protest by […]

JC & CVK
We started this blog back in April of 2004 on a dinky little Xanga. Back then, we weren’t quite sure what MMW was, but generally we thought of it as a place where we could document all the ways in which mixed race people, interracial couples and families were portrayed in the […]

JC & CVK
Thanks to everyone who tuned in to listen to our live show of Addicted to Race last night! Jen and I had a great time, and we’re so happy that we had so many listeners calling in. Not bad for a first stab at this new format!
We’ll be releasing the show as a […]

NBC considering sitcom about interracial family - Cynthia Turner’s Cynopsis
(thanks Caroline!) NBC is looking at a pilot script from Chris and Paul Weitz for a comedy project that evolves around an interracial family… Writing the script is Angela Nissel, who is the daughter of an African American mother and a Caucasian father.
(tags: africanamerican caucasian interracialrelationships […]

CVK
Jen and I have talked before about the backlash against so-called political correctness. (Check out my rant in episode 10 of Addicted to Race, for example.)
Again and again, we see people making tired, cliched racist comments and then defending them as expressions of independent thinking, a way of thumbing their nose at “liberals” and […]

CVK
One of our readers objected to my calling this BusinessWeek article “totally stupid” in our links post:
lavanya:
I kind of resent the way MMW completely dismisses the article by calling it “totally stupid” and then not qualifying why. Mind you, I’m no defender of the model minority myth but I noticed how you guys completely avoided […]

JC & CVK
It’s finally here! We’re going to do a live call-in show of Addicted to Race tonight! It’ll happen on tonight, Tuesday, September 19 at 10 pm Eastern U.S. time. Make sure you tune in!
We’ll be discussing the gender wars that seem to exist in the African-American and Asian-American communities. Is there really tension […]

Are Indians the Model Immigrants? - BusinessWeek
Totally stupid article hyping the model minority myth: “Why are Indians such a model immigrant group? In the absence of scientific research, I’ll present my own reasons for why this group has achieved so much. As an Indian immigrant myself, I have had the
(tags: asian asianamerican modelminority raciststereotypes positivestereotypes […]

JCThere isn’t much to say on this because it really speaks for itself. Basically, some more anti-immigration backlash. Springfield, Tennessee is considering banning Latinos from the town’s public parks (make sure to check out link to view the videos of the news pieces that covered this issue). I’ll just leave you with a WHAT-THE-GOOD-GOD-HELL?!

“In last […]

JC & CVK
You may have noticed that we’ve gradually been making changes to the way we describe New Demographic. When we launched the company in late 2004, our main goal was to raise awareness about issues surrounding mixed race identity and interracial relationships. Over the years, our work has evolved. What we realized is […]