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VideoFight Halloween Bigotry! Dress Provocatively Proactive With These Costume Ideas
by Channing Kennedy on October 30 2009, 4:20PM
image via someecards.com We’ve all seen the many racist and sexist Halloween costumes on the market this year (and every year). And this soft bigotry, through objectifying imagery under the pretense of parody or entertainment, absolutely must be named,…
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CNN On Latinos: Use Them Bootstraps
by Daisy Hernandez on October 21 2009, 12:59PM
I’m here with my colleague Alfredo DeAvila and we’re brainstorming something nice to say about CNN’s new special on Latinos in the United States: At least they don’t ignore us. All the Garcia girls were cute. It could have been…
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Younge’s Mixed-Race Messaging Misses the Point
by Guest Columnist on October 15 2009, 6:09AM
by Adebe DeRango-Adem, research intern for Applied Research Center In Gary Younge’s piece on the often race-heavy baggage brought to both sides of conversations about President Obama, he argues that a combined obsession with celebrity and rise of the…
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Basta Dobbs!: Watch the Video, Sign the Pledge
by Seth Freed Wessler on October 13 2009, 9:27AM
Nobody has done more to spread hate and lies than Lou Dobbs, who spouts his anti-Latino vitriol into American living rooms every night. His words are dangerous. Late last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported an increase in…
Topics: Immigration, Media
“Greasy Like Chicken”: Chris Rock’s ‘Good Hair’ Pitch Takes a Nap on Race and Gender [VIDEO]
by Guest Columnist on October 5 2009, 8:43AM
by guest blogger Bimbola Akinbola. Chris Rock appeared on The Jay Leno Show and Oprah this week to promote his new movie Good Hair, a documentary about hair politics in the Black community with a “funny edge.” While I personally…
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Discovery Channel’s ‘Gang Wars: Oakland’ Series Spreads All the Wrong Messages
by Jorge Rivas on September 28 2009, 9:02AM
Last week the Discovery Channel aired “Gang Wars: Oakland”, a series that according the network, “opens a window to give a glimpse inside the lives of Oakland’s gangs.” However, the series played more like a myth dispenser about black…
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Lou Dobbs Leads Human Rights Crusade Against Roberto Lovato
by Michelle Chen on September 22 2009, 10:14PM
Media Matters has brought us this gem from the September 22 broadcast of The Lou DobbsShow, in which he takes denounces Roberto Lovato, founder of presente.org and Colorlines contributor, as “a typical left-wing activist coward propagandist.” Have a listen: Dobbs…
Topics: Immigration, Media
Janeane Garofalo & Kai Wright: Racism as Strong as Ever
by Jorge Rivas on September 18 2009, 2:03PM
Who knew Janeane Garofalo had such good race politics? Kai Wright, as usual, steals the show though….
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What Was Different about Annie Le
by Guest Columnist on September 16 2009, 3:54PM
This article was removed at the request of the author. The article is now available at Subversities….
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Obama’s Post-Racist Presidency: Is ‘Socialist’ the new N-Word?
by Guest Columnist on September 8 2009, 11:30AM
Written by Victor Goode In the last few weeks, some of the right wing criticism of President Obama has reached a virtual crescendo. To be sure, some of his policies raise questions, and reasoned critiques have come from both right…
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Jenna Bush’s Genetic Advantage: Her Last Name
by Channing Kennedy on August 31 2009, 10:29AM
Jenna Bush, daughter of George W., has just been hired on by The Today Show. This is good news for us, because it’s handed some of our favorite bloggers a stick with which to poke conservative ideas of meritocracy….
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Glenn Beck’s Attack On Van Jones: Fantasies & Falsehoods
by Guest Columnist on August 28 2009, 4:52PM
[Editor’s note: I’ve included Glenn Beck’s piece on Van Jones above, in case you’d like to hear a narrator say ‘green jobs’ in a scary voice. I kid, but seriously: while we might see these as the obvious falsehoods…
Caption Contest Post Has Moved!
by Channing Kennedy on August 25 2009, 1:57PM
Hey all: Thanks for participating! Head on over to the new caption contest post, and bring your A game! Last week’s winner below the jump. ——————————————————————— AND SPEAKING OF: Last week’s winner is (drumroll please) RaceWire commenter tonymacias, with: “Y’all…
Topics: Environment, Media, Video & Multimedia
Beyond ‘Hard-Working’: Rinku Sen Talks About Talking About Race at Netroots Nation [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on August 25 2009, 11:32AM
Courtesy of Sum of Change, here’s our own Rinku Sen (executive director of the Applied Research Center, publisher of ColorLines, author of The Accidental American) at Netroots Nation 2009. Speaking on the “Stepping it up: Creating Powerful Multiracial Alliances…
Topics: Criminal Justice, Immigration, Media, Video & Multimedia
Racism’s Demise has been Greatly Exaggerated: Rinku Sen at Netroots Nation ‘09 [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on August 24 2009, 10:13AM
Courtesy of Sum of Change, here’s our own Rinku Sen (executive director of the Applied Research Center, publisher of ColorLines, author of The Accidental American, list goes on). Speaking on the “Myth of Post-Racial America” panel, Rinku takes post-racialism…
Topics: Immigration, Media, Video & Multimedia
Naomi Campbell Jumps Rope with Monkeys in Harper’s Bazaar
by Julianne Hing on August 19 2009, 2:29PM
The spread was shot for the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar by Jean-Paul Goude, who, Jezebel points out, made a name for himself by exploring his self-confessed “jungle fever.” Other photos from the spread include Naomi Campbell wearing a…
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Chris Rock’s “Good Hair” Could Set White Men Straight
by Channing Kennedy on August 7 2009, 2:15PM
I know Daisy just beat me to the punch on posting this trailer, but stick with me. I remember very clearly an exchange I had with a Black woman I’d just met, shortly after I’d left my rural Missouri hometown…
Topics: Media, Video & Multimedia
Did they act alone? The media and the “extremists”
by Michelle Chen on June 10 2009, 3:59PM
Details are trickling in about the suspect behind the shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum today. James Von Brunn, an elder of the white supremacist movement, renowned for prolific spew about Jews, Barack Obama, America as a “third-world racial…
Topics: Media, National Security
by Daisy Hernandez on May 20 2009, 1:05PM
Two hipsters set out to make a commercial for a local furniture store in North Carolina. They decide to go with the personal angle and quickly discover that the white and black guys selling furniture are most comfortable saying two…
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Open Book TV with Moutafa Bayoumi [VIDEO]
by Julianne Hing on May 7 2009, 12:34PM
Open Book TV: Moustafa Bayoumi from Open Book TV on Vimeo. Check out this clip from Open Book, a new television show about books that spends each episode in one location exploring stories about people’s ties to place. The premiere…
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