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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
The Los Angeles Times reviews “Tea“, the new production by Velina Hasu Houston about war brides and their lives and families. The show is currently running at the International City Theater in Long Beach, CA. This reviewer doesn’t have many nice things to say and seems to think that it is all done in a […]
CVK
An article in AsianWeek questions why everyone is so blase about the recent attacks at Princeton University, in which 28-year-old doctoral student Michael Lohman (pictured) surreptitiously cut locks of hair from at least nine Asian women, poured his urine and semen into the drinks of Asian women more than 50 times, and stole Asian women’s […]
CVK
The San Fransisco Chronicle covers a study of Asian Americans in primetime TV that demonstrates (surprise, surprise) that they’re way under-represented:
Asians, who make up 5 percent of the U.S. population, play 2.7 percent of regular characters. It also shows virtually no Asian actors are on situation comedies, and the characters they play in dramas tend […]
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 […]
JC
The NY Times featured an article in their Sunday Styles section about Mavin’s Generation Mix tour and some of the other activism that is coming out of the mixed community. We were especially excited to have Mixed Media Watch mentioned! This is definitely one of the better articles we have seen written about the mixed […]
JC
Nirali Magazine highlights Navi Rawat, an up and coming actress in her 20s. She is recently getting a lot of attention for her ability to play a diversity of roles (the New York Daily News just named her a “Hot Face to Watch” in its January issue). In this article, she discusses her mixed heritage […]
JC
Nicholas Jones of the US Census Bureau has just released a report on the multiracial respondents of the 2000 Census, We the People of More Than One Race in the United States.
This report provides a portrait of the Two or More Races population in the United States and discusses the twelve largest race combinations within […]
CVK
(Thanks to Asian Dude for this one!) Blog Purifying Flames questions the double standard of media coverage surrounding the Princeton attacks on Asian women. Why is it that these attacks are described merely as “lewd behavior,” when an almost-identical case involving all white female victims is referred to as “assault” and involves much harsher punishment?
As […]
CVK
Wow, this guy wins the Asian Fetishist of the Year award. Princeton grad student Michael J. Lohman was arrested for more than 50 incidents of harassment targeting Asian women on the Princeton University campus. His crimes? Stealing panties, cutting locks of hair, squirting into women’s drinks… should I go on? Here’s a report from ZWire:
Investigators […]
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 […]
JC
Now…I’m not one to gossip ;), but…looks like Life & Style is getting canned and people are pointing the finger at Kimora. Her diva ways seem to have turned off more than a couple of people. The assumption about why she has failed to bring in the “urban” watchers is interesting. Perhaps the statement is […]
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 […]
AUM (a new MMW contributor!)
In this article from the NY Times Opinion pages, Armand Marie Leroi argues that the concept of race as a genetic reality, a concept which we had all replaced with the easier-to swallow “race as a social construct” model, may actually have biological basis.
“The idea that human races are […]
CVK
The New York Times reviews the new film “Face”:
“Face” takes a conventional culture-clash theme and gives it the kick (and hop) of a good music mix tape. In the 1970’s, a young woman in New York’s Chinatown (Bai Ling, who has the demure beauty of Audrey Hepburn) is date-raped and forced to marry her assailant […]
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
Ew! Ew! Ew! and Ew! Just saw this on Angry Asian Man. There’s a “club” for Hawaiian women who married white men, it’s called the Haole Hubby Club - they even have t-shirts and crap like that. The Honolulu Advertiser did a story on them. Here’s what the Club says in their About Us section:
The […]