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NPR’s All Things Considered did a story on Mavin’s Generation Mix tour. You can listen to the feed online here: A Generation of Mixed Race Youth Speaks Out. The story is pretty basic, but at least it doesn’t further reinforce any of the awful stereotypes out there about mixed folks. Sometimes, that alone is […]

CVK
California paper Red Bluff Daily News covers Ward “Moneybags” Connerly’s recent speech at a Republican fundraiser. Interesting that the paper refers to affirmative action as “racial preferencing.” Anyway, here’s Ward’s usual load of bull:
“It shouldn’t be controversial for me to say that giving a person 250 bonus points simply because of his or her race […]

CVK

Last week’s New York magazine had an interesting article about how gentrification is affecting one single block in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood long known as one of the most dangerous slums in Brooklyn, but now being prized for its supply of well-maintained brownstones and proximity to Manhattan.
The article points out that many of the neighborhood’s new […]

CVK
The Philadelphia Inquirer interviews former NBA star Charles Barkley, who is promoting his new book, Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man? in which he interviews 13 influential Americans - from Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to Tiger Woods and George Lopez - who speak frankly about race and racism:
Barkley’s complexity enhances his controversial nature. […]

CVK

Woah. Last night’s episode of America’s Next Top Model was… interesting. They did a photo shoot where each model was transformed into an ethnicity different from their own, and were supposed to emote that ethnicity from within, or something. In one priceless moment, Tyra berated a model for not emoting “Eskimo” enough, saying: “Think about […]

CVK
The Office for National Statistics has published a new report on inter-ethnic marriage statistics in the U.K:
Two per cent of marriages were between people from different ethnic backgrounds (219,000). Of these inter-ethnic marriages, most (198,000) included a White person…
The most common inter-ethnic marriages were between White and Mixed race people, 26 per cent of all […]

JC
UCBerkeley News follows up on their article of last week about four mixed students in order to highlight some additional thoughts from other members of the Berkeley community.
Thus, for me, race is an artificial construct, which isolates me from those unknowledgeable of the biracial experience. At the same time, my races help me […]

CVK
Interesting that director Greg Pak was just talking about wanting to see Keanu Reeves play an Asian-American character one day. CHUD.com reports that Keanu will be playing Sinbad (yes, the sailor) in director Rob Cohen’s “The 8th Voyage of Sinbad.” No, it’s not an Asian character but he will be portraying someone of Arab descent–and […]

RN

Years ago filmmaker Cheuk Kwan was in Istanbul and came across a Chinese restaurant. Kwan had heard that the owner had actually walked from China. The discovery and amazing story sparked a life-long obsession that resulted in a 13-part documentary series that took Kwan and his crew to more than 13 countries. Kwan’s camera […]

CVK

There’s a good article on UC Berkeley’s NewsCenter that explores what it’s like to be a mixed student at that school, where 22.9% of undergrads self-identified as mixed in a 2004 survey. (Across the UC system, the average was 25.8 percent. ) The article details the divergent experiences of four students, but also does a […]

JC
Dallas News ran an interview with Iman about her make-up line for women of color. She created Iman Cosmetics and Skincare Collection eleven years ago.
“I realized there wasn’t a makeup product on the market that met my needs or the needs of the majority of women of color,” says the daughter of an African diplomat […]

JC
Sounds a little crazy, no? I have definitely met a few proselytizers in my day. People who try to persuade others to “mix it up!” They plead, “Help to contribute to the browning of our world!” They are the cheerleaders of our brave new world: “Blend people, blend!!” This is all usually said with a […]

CVK
Those of you in NYC may want to check out a rally in Union Square this Friday protesting the racist actions of local radio station Hot 97. It’s a community event organized by a coalition of hip hop artists and activists (the “Hip Hop Coalition“) to celebrate the true hip hop culture with guest speakers: […]

ELW
I too saw ‘In Race We Lust’ last night. I agree that it did a pretty good job of talking about lots of the stereotypes.
What i did not like were the sections where they polled the various interviewees about which mixed celeb is more this or that (insert race). Like asking people who they […]

CVK
Tragic mulattos, of course! The last segment of Ego Trip’s Race-O-Rama aired on VH1 last night and it was very funny, and really quite good. The episode was titled “In Race We Lust” and explored all the taboo and stereotypes surrounding interracial couples and their mixed-race offspring. People in the mixed community probably wouldn’t have […]

CVK
Just when you thought Ward “Moneybags” Connerly couldn’t possibly squeeze any more money out of pimping his mixed race identity to conservatives out to destroy affirmative action, along comes the Bradley Prize, which gave him a quarter million dollars for… well, just for being his adorable little self. The Washington Post reports on the evening […]

JC
Sarah Jones is a mixed race playwright, actor, and poet. Watch her on Bravo tonight (9/8c) if you can! She will be taking the amazing work she does through her one-woman shows to the ‘tube for this special. You can check out a preview clip of the show at Bravo…and her official site here. Thanks […]

JT
American Apparel is the Los Angeles based clothing manufacturer well known for its sweatshop free production and colorful product line. You probably also know them for their ultra skinned-out advertisements often depicting women and men wearing the barest of garments, and in awkward poses. To their marketing stratagem of home-style photography, semi-nudity and of course […]

CVK
Valentines Day is approaching, and along with comes a slew of silly articles celebrating everyone’s favorite forbidden topic: interracial LURVE…
You can take a look at some of these articles yourself. They’re all basically coming from the same well-intentioned but simplistic place: if two people can overcome racial obstacles and social ostracization for love, their love […]

CVK
We all know that media folks love us young, racially ambiguous, oh-so-hip people (yes, tongue is firmly planted in cheek). But now Hollywood blog Defamer offers a hilarious inside look at how music videos go about finding these “Generation EA’ers”:
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has presented itself, as curiously hacky director Brett Ratner takes a short break […]