The Racialicious Links Roundup 9.26.13
For Migrants, New Land of Opportunity Is Mexico (The New York Times) Some Mexicans and foreigners say Europeans are given special treatment because they are perceived to be of a higher class, a legacy...
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Quoted: Malcolm Harris on Race In Breaking Bad
Bryan Cranston as Walter White. Image via Green Bay Press Gazette. Demographically, the viewers AMC wants are more likely to do a lot of pills than unscrew a light bulb to smoke some ice, even if the...
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The Racialicious Links Roundup 10.3.13: Love for Scandal, A Love Letter to...
Kerry Washington returns as Olivia Pope tonight on ABC’s “Scandal.” Herman Wallace: Surviving 40 years in solitary (BBC News) Some prisoners are placed in solitary confinement because they have...
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Quoted: On Colonial America’s Relationship With Islam
Third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. Image via history.com. At a time when most Americans were uninformed, misinformed, or simply afraid of Islam, Thomas Jefferson imagined Muslims as future...
View ArticleThe Racialicious Links Roundup 10.10.13: Malala, Oneida Nation, Sleepy Hollow...
Malala Yousafzai and the White Saviour Complex (Media Diversity UK) When Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen simply because she wanted to gain an education it sent shockwaves...
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Quoted: ESPN On Jason Collins, A Season Later
Free-agent NBA center Jason Collins. Image via freddyo.com Welts’ combination of optimism and apprehension is shared by many others around the league who are rooting for Collins, but recognize the...
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The Racialicious Links Roundup 10.17.13: Kenan Thompson, Mapping Race In...
“Saturday Night Live” cast member Kenan Thompson. Image via BET. The Trouble With Kenan Thompson’s Comments On SNL Not Casting Women-Of-Color (Shadow & Act) Thompson’s decade-long run on SNL is...
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The Racialicious Links Roundup 10.31.13: The Debate Around Malala Continues,...
Young activist Malala Yousafzai. Image via ABC News. A Reply to: Malala Yousafzai and the White Saviour Complex (Media Diversity UK) Does Baig realize he is identifying every brown man with the...
View ArticleThe Racialicious Links Roundup 11.7.13: Renisha McBride, Richie Incognito,...
Chicago News and Weather | FOX 32 News Black Detroit Woman Shot To Death While Seeking Help In White Neighborhood After Car Crash (Rania Khalek) f you thought what happened to Jonathan Ferrell last...
View ArticleThe Racialicious Links Roundup 11.14.13: Sleepy Hollow, Renisha McBride, Luke...
Fox Says Diversity Leads To Good Ratings And Better Business (NPR Code Switch) Years ago, an actor/writer working on a pilot episode for Fox told me she suspected a 2010 session just led producers to...
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Quoted: OC Weekly On The Latin Grammys Marginalizing Mexico
Latin Grammy nominee Aleks Syntek, via Facebook. First, the caveat: ANY entertainment industry awards show never gets anything right and really serves as an excuse for bigwigs to have one giant,...
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The Racialicious Links Roundup 11.21.13: The Best Man Holiday, Orange Is The...
Cast of “The Best Man Holiday.” Fear Of A Black Opening Weekend (The Awl) The Best Man Holiday is a success. That is not particularly a “surprise.” It did not “over-perform,” nor did it soar for a...
View ArticleThanksgiving is Complicated
Every year, Thanksgiving rolls around, and every year, we wonder exactly what to say. Enjoy the holiday? Reflect on colonization? Boycott some kind of whitewashing? This year, we’re going to share one...
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The Racialicious Links Roundup 12.5.13: Black Twitter, Black Academics, Iran,...
“Sleepy Hollow” star Orlando Jones. Image via Crave Online. The American media has no idea how to talk about race on-screen (Salon) Pop culture is a window into our lives and, while clumsy, USA Today...
View ArticleVideo: President Obama’s Speech At Nelson Mandela Memorial
It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailer as well — (applause) — to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you; to teach that reconciliation is not a...
View ArticleThe Racialicious Links Roundup 12.12.13: Nelson Mandela, New York’s Poor,...
Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel (Okwonga.com) You will make out that apartheid was just some sort of evil mystical space disease that suddenly fell from the heavens and settled on all of us,...
View ArticleThe Racialicious Links Roundup 12.19.13: Jim Brown vs. Kobe Bryant, Beyoncé,...
When Jim Brown Slams Kobe Bryant, Black Men Lose (The Root) Brown’s statements about Kobe earlier this week weren’t shocking for a man who has always taken athletes to task. On The Arsenio Hall Show,...
View ArticleThe Hack is Over!
Finally! After weeks of trying to rid 8 years of archives of malicious, Ugg boot selling code, we are back to normal. Apologies for the long absence and delay. All should be well, but if you spot...
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Quoted: Arturo & Kendra Talk Comics On NPR’s Code Switch
Taken from “What If The X-Men Were Black?” Kendra on the industry’s expectations of the audience: “What’s the nerd stereotype? The guy who looks like Kevin Smith, or the [brown] girl who’s been loyal...
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White Feminists And Michelle Obama [The Throwback]
By Special Correspondent Nadra Kareem Editor’s Note: In this feature, we’re bringing back some of our favorite stories from Racialicious history. This week, in honor of the First Lady’s 50th Birthday,...
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