CVK
From The Tyra Banks Show’s email newsletter, emphasis mine. Not that I get that newsletter or anything. Hey, we’re media watchers ok?
Hi y’all,
Who is Nicole Richie? How did she get so skinny? Does she think she looks good? Why is she famous? Who is she really dating? Will her and Paris ever be […]

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.
RANT:
Jen rants about the dynamics that surround acts of protest.
INTERVIEW:
Carmen interviews Anthony Arnove, author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal They’ll discuss the […]

CVK

What better way to start off your Monday than with some blackface runway stylings? I spotted this over at TrendyNation, from Taisha Nobukuni’s show at Tokyo Fashion Week.
Related posts: Is blackface in Japan racist? and Blackface outside the U.S.

CY (a new MMW guest contributor!)
Surprise, surprise! The racist musings of yet another public figure have made headlines. The culprit: Arnold Schwarzenegger. On Friday, he publicly apologized for making statements that were recorded on a six minute tape made during one of his speechwriting sessions. Chief of staff Susan Kennedy and Arnold Schwarzenegger engaged in […]

CVK
(Spotted this over at Rachel’s Tavern) The 5th Erase Racism Carnival will be held at Black Looks. Submissions need to be turned in by the 17th. You can click on the link to check out Sokari’s call for posts.

JC & CVK
Hey MMW readers, as you know, we’re all about supporting realistic, three-dimensional portrayals of people of color in the media. So if you’re in NYC this weekend, we encourage you to head out to watch RED DOORS, a film by Georgia Lee, Mia Riverton and Jane Chen. If you go tonight, you […]

Several Agencies Sign Agreements to Forestall Diversity Hearings - Advertising Age
…Several ad agencies under scrutiny for their lackluster diversity-hiring practices have pledged to ramp up their minority recruiting, signing agreements designed to forestall potentially embarrassing public hearings planned for later this month…
(tags: advertising diversity institutionalracism racialdiscrimination racism)

Mad Ave Skillz! - MultiCultClassics
… Salzman fancies herself a […]

CVK
I know that I shouldn’t expect too much from beer commercials but these Bud Light ads, featuring the uh, comic duo of Steve and Zagar, really sink to a new low. Watch them yourself here.
I can’t even count all the stereotypes these ads contain: cannibalism, eating domestic animals, spear-chucking, squatting, etc.
From DiversityInc:
The multimedia advertising spots […]

CVK & JC
Did you know that we send out an email newsletter once a month with updates on all our projects? It’s a great way to keep up with the full spectrum of our work: not just Mixed Media Watch, but Addicted to Race and New Demographic as well.
Check out our latest newsletter here. If […]

Stereotypes and the Achievement Gap - blackprof.com
…In a striking experiment about stereotypes and academic achievement, African-American seventh graders performed better in school months after they were asked to spend 15 minutes thinking about their identity and values…
(tags: education africanamerican black raciststereotypes institutionalracism)

A Woman Black - TheThink
…there is no real way to prove that I don’t […]

JC
Do you think you can do a better job than Leon Puissegur of cramming every stereotype and cliche about black Americans into one blathering editorial piece? I don’t think ya can. I mean, he pretty much got it all in there. In one fell swoop, he talks about blacks in this country being murderers, thieves, […]

CVK
Heehee… had to share a couple funny items from Gawker.
On the Vanity Fair photos of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ baby, Suri:
“Apparently, the Cruise family decided to go the Asian route on the casting of this one.”
And on the new season of “Survivor’s” appeal among the white supremacist crowd:
“Be that as it may, those fags […]

“It Costs Too Much For Me to Date a White Man” - Center for Serendipity
…Perhaps it is harder to screen white people–that is, it’s safe to assume that a higher percentage of whites than blacks are clueless about race. But I’m happy to be with a white woman if she’s one of those white women […]

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.
SPECIAL INTERN EPISODE
This is the final installment in a series of special episodes in which we will share with you segments written and […]

Mystic_Rebel (a new MMW guest contributor!)
This is sad that yet another group [insert ethnicity here] is being racialized because of fear and intolerance. So much so that Americans who can’t tell the difference from a non-Arab Sikh who wears a turban to a practicing Muslim who may or may not have a beard or a […]

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.
SPECIAL INTERN EPISODE
This is the fourth in a series of special episodes in which we will share with you segments written and produced […]

JCOkay, maybe this is some of my damnhowdidtheweekendflybysoquicklyagain angst talking, but I’m just gonna run with it. Saw an article in American Jewish Life Magazine about Esti Mamo, an Israeli model. She happens to be Ethiopian, and that of course becomes the focus of the story.
This is yet another instance of “Whoa! Who would […]

LL (a returning MMW guest contributor!)
When Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle came out, lots of Asian men (myself included) cheered when the character of Harold (played by John Cho) seemingly crawled out of his shell and started to kick butt (though he did flinch), take names and smoke weed, which ended up […]

Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me - New York Times
My ex did not grapple with race, at first because he did not have to, being a white man in America, and later because it frightened him. This difference was a small but steady river that ran between us, and […]

Reframing Transracial Adoption - Rachel’s Tavern
Incredibly sharp post from Rachel on how the media frames the discussion of transracial adoption in a way that makes whites seem progressive, blacks seem race-obsessed and selfish, and completely ignores institutional racism.
(tags: internationaladoption transracialadoption race racism parenting)

Mixed Messages, Part I: Gettin’ Down with the Brown - Sepia Mutiny
Fantastic post […]