A must-read: Reappropriate on Michael Richards and the racist fairy
by Carmen Van Kerckhove It’s no secret that Reappropriate is one of my favorite blogs. Jenn’s analysis is razor-sharp and she’s also funny as hell. I urge you to head over to her blog right now and...
View ArticleWhite supremacy by any other name
by guest contributor Kai Chang, originally published at Zuky When now-disgraced comedian Michael Richards screeched into his microphone “Fifty years ago we’d have you upside down with a fucking fork up...
View ArticleWhiteness in a bottle: Alabaster perfume from Banana Republic
by Carmen Van Kerckhove There are certain fashion brands that I associate with whiteness. Some, like Abercrombie & Fitch, have aggressively aligned themselves with whiteness. (Their catalogs are...
View ArticleGo vote for Kiri Davis’s “A Girl Like Me”!
by Carmen Van Kerckhove CosmoGirl.com is currently hosting a film contest. The winner will receive a $10,000 scholarship! One of the finalists is the amazing Kiri Davis, whose short film “A Girl Like...
View ArticleOpen Mic Night: Enter At Your Own Risk
by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson I always wonder why the hell white people go to open mic nights at Busboys and Poets. Busboys and Poets is “a restaurant, bookstore, and gathering...
View ArticleIs there a CosmoGirl conspiracy against Kiri Davis?
by Carmen Van Kerckhove No, there isn’t. At least not in my opinion. As you know, Racialicious has been among the many blogs encouraging people to vote for Kiri Davis’s short film “A Girl Like Me,” a...
View ArticleBell Hooks on hip hop
by Carmen Van Kerckhove This clip is from a 1996 video, bell hooks on Video: Cultural Criticism & Transformation, and in this segment, bell hooks discusses hip hop in the context of patriarchy,...
View ArticleDenial and Delusion – Why Public Conversations About Race Fail Before They Begin
by Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson I am done, done, done. I intended to work on my follow up to Internalizing Stereotypes. Key word: intended. However, the sequel is not happening this week. The...
View ArticleVogue India Shows Appreciation For Indian Beauty With Caucasian Model...
by guest contributor Seattle Slim, originally published at Happy Nappy Head This is the cover of the inaugural issue of Vogue India. Unfortunately, I don’t see much of anything distinctly “Indian”...
View ArticlePrison Break recap of episode 308: Bang and Burn
by guest contributor Masheka Wood Previously on Prison Break: Michael finally finds out Sarah’s dead, starts a chicken-foot fight against Whistler for a distraction, and watches his first Sona escape...
View ArticleInterview with Mat Johnson, author of graphic novel Incognegro
by Carmen Van Kerckhove Mat Johnson is winner of the prestigious Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction and currently teaches at the University of Houston, Creative Writing Program. Read more about...
View ArticleBlackface, and the Violence of Revulsion
by Guest Contributor Minh-ha, originally published at Threadbared This post is supposed to be about the latest occurrences of blackface in fashion — specifically, the 14-page editorial featuring Lara...
View ArticleJesse James, Sandra Bullock, and Public Discussions of Racism
by Latoya Peterson So, I have been trying to motivate myself to write about the Jesse James – Sandra Bullock saga, but I am just not feeling it. For those new to the situation, Jesse James is the...
View ArticleTechnoRacism: White Supremacist Site Hijacks Dr. King’s Legacy with SEO...
Over at the Click the Toad Blog, the Chief Toad explains how the MLK Jr. official legacy site was outranked by white supremacists with a good grasp of SEO: My hands are shaking with anger as I type...
View ArticleRequired Reading: Junot Díaz and Paula M.L. Moya Discuss Decolonial Love
For me, the family fukú is rape. The rape culture of the European colonization of the New World—which becomes the rape culture of the Trujillato (Trujillo just took that very old record and remixed...
View ArticleHate Crimes Always Have A Logic: On The Oak Creek Gurudwara Shootings
By Guest Contributor Harsha Walia Candles at the Vigil. Photo: Overpass Light Brigade via DailyKos. The Oak Creek Gurudwara is my brother’s and frequently my parent’s sangat. Over the years, they have...
View ArticleWhite entitlement is white supremacy
Some years ago I decided I was done with certain kinds of “race writing.” Specifically, the kinds that involved responding at length to arguments so transparently shallow, ignorant, and self-serving...
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