Blog Profile / Racialicious
| URL : | http://www.racialicious.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Society & Culture / Ethnicity & Race | |
| Posts on Regator: | 2823 | |
| Posts / Week: | 12.6 | |
| Archived Since: | February 11, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
Book Review: Storm Warning by E.A. O’Neal
By Book Review Correspondent Carly Neely
How nice is it to read a collection of stories about a Caribbean island and have it not talk about rum punches and idle days spent lounging on a beach in a careless, unblemished paradise? It’s very nice. Truly, it’s my favorite thing about Storm Warning by E.A. O’Neal. I want action, intrigue, …
The Racialicious Links Roundup 5.23.13
Why USC and not a black college, Dr. Dre? (The Los Angeles Times) Make no mistake: This donation is historic. It appears to be the largest gift by a black man to any college or university, comparable to the gift Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille, gave to Spelman College in 1988. Some 25 years later, their $20-million …
Meanwhile, On TumblR: In Defense Of Beyoncé–Again
By Andrea Plaid Our own Senior Editor, Tami Winfrey Harris, wrote a great post about Beyonce and the continued questioning of her feminism for Bitch Magazine’s print edition–and Salon.com picked up: Black women are, it seems, damned if we do and damned if we don’t. Our collective singleness, independence, and unsanctioned mothering are an affront to mainstream womanhood. …
Amitabh Bachchan In The Great Gatsby: Is Desi The New Jewish?
By Margaret Redlich When I studied The Great Gatsby in college, we spent an entire class period on the character of Meyer Wolsheim–. From the multiple descriptions of his oversize nose and atrocious dialect (“gonnegtions”), it only took five minutes for the class to determine he was supposed to be Jewish, and someone involved was terribly racist. The question then …
Scandal Roundtable 2.22: “White Hat’s Back On”
Hosted by Joe Lamour
Last week Arturo Garcia deftly laid out what happened during the season finale. Thanks Art! Before we break for the summer, Jordan St. John, Loree Lamour, Johnathan Fields and I talk about the things that surprised and delighted us during the last episode of Scandal Season Two.
Jordan: For a second, I just have to …
Race + Higher Ed: Fear not, Suzy. You’re still #1!
By Kendra James As we celebrate the graduating classes of 2013 over the next few weekends, lets take some time to glance at the new data on college graduation percentages vs. minority enrollment rates. There’s no accompanying article to the data (all via the National Center for Education Statistics, 2011), but if there were I suspect it would start like …
Table For Two: Star Trek Into Darkness
By Kendra James & Arturo R. García
You know why we picked the poster for the 3D showings of Star Trek Into Darkness? Because that’s about two more dimensions than the story ended up having. Set phasers to spoilers under the cut, as we talk about Khan, Sulu, Uhura and where the franchise might go after this — assuming the …
Watch: Fruitvale Station Has A Trailer And An Opening Date
By Arturo R. García When last we left Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale, it had earned both the top prizes and a distribution deal at the Sundance Film Festival. Now known as Fruitvale Station, the film is continuing to win acclaim, this time at the Cannes Film Festival. As star Michael B. Jordan, who plays Oscar Grant, the victim of a police …
Short but Sweet: Kim Ho’s The Language Of Love
By Arturo R. García
If you’ve got a little less than 10 minutes to spare, the short film The Language of Love is worth your time, as 17-year-old writer and performer Kim Ho navigates young Charlie’s coming to terms with his own sexuality when asked to write an essay describing his best friend.
“What the f-ck is happening to me?” …
Will Best Man Holiday usher in a new golden era of black rom coms?
::Puts on black lady of a certain age hat:: You kids today don’t even know. Those of us who were 20-something in the 90s enjoyed the golden age of the black rom com. If Larenz Tate standing in the rain on the Southside of Chicago telling Nia Long: “Let me tell you somethin’. This here, right now, at this …
Book Excerpt: “Seeing Things” from Godless Americana
Written by Guest Contributor Sikivu Hutchinson
The two young men of color walk through the gallery transfixed. There is so much to see and so little time to see it in; no docents handy to provide a frame, no earphones to squawk on about context and artist’s intent. The trip from their South L.A. school to the L.A. County Museum …
Race + TV: Four Summer Shows From Across The Pond
By Kendra James
Upfronts are done, premiere schedules are set, Stefon and Seth ran off into the sunset, and even though it’s only May it feels like we’re already halfway through the summer blockbuster set list, so what’s a pop culture junkie to do? I humbly suggest using this hiatus season to catch up on a few British shows you …
A Few Thoughts On Star Trek: Into Darkness
By Arturo R. García
Kendra and I will have a more thorough discussion regarding Star Trek Into Darkness on Wednesday. But, now that the film is out and a rather big racebending cat is out of the bag, I figured we’d open things up for a bigger discussion. Spoilers under the cut.
So, to finally confirm the spoiler that got …
Quoted: On The Summer Prince, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
In addition to race and class dynamics, other issues from our real-world culture persist in Palmares Três. Even in a city run by women, teen motherhood continues to be stigmatized. One character in the book is the son of a woman who had him when she was 16. Although eighteen years have passed, both the son and mother, who has …
Friday Foolishness: Selena Gomez Is Wearing A Bindi?
By Andrea Plaid
Usually, this space at this time is reserved for the Racialicious Crush Of The Week. But sometimes we gotta keep our Fridays light by giving some side-eye to some face-palming foolishness.
This week’s features some old-school kyriarchy from former Disney star Selena Gomez, who’s been styling out with bindis since the MTV Video Awards in mid-April.…
The Rise Of Beyoncé, The Fall Of Lauryn Hill: A Tale Of Two Icons
By Guest Contributor Janell Hobson; originally published at The Feminist Wire
Fifteen years ago, the stardom of then-23-year-old Lauryn Hill had peaked when she released what would become her defining musical legacy. After rising to...Show More Summary
Retrolicious–Mad Men 6.7: “Man With A Plan”
Hosted by Tami Winfrey Harris and Andrea Plaid
Since Tami, Womanist Musings’ and Fangs for the Fantasy’s Renee Martin, and I noticed the dearth of Black folks and other people of color in the episode, we had to compensate with the above photo of actor Teyonah Parris, who plays Dawn on Mad Men. In the meantime, we chat …
Open Thread: The Great Gatsby
By Latoya Peterson
So I haven’t done a movie review for this site in forever, and I probably will never again. That’s because before I started this gig, I watched movies like this:
And now I watch movies like this:
But the other Knights wanted to go, it looked pretty, Hova did the soundtrack, and I was hoping …
Scandal Recap 2.22: “White Hats Back On”
By Arturo R. García
Greetings Scandalizens!
And thanks to K&J for allowing me to follow in a proud tradition of San Diegan closers by being your guest recapper for the season finale. But enough about me.
Previously, on Scandal:
Spoilers under the cut, and they will be thorough.
While this episode began with the Gladiators seated around the table …
Quoted: Lucy Liu On Racial Image And Romantic Comedies
by Joseph Lamour
The levels to which I would like to see Lucy Liu, Eva Mendes, or Aisha Tyler as the next Rom Com Queen knows no bounds. It’s nice to know Ms. Liu feels the same way. From The Edit magazine:
“I wish people wouldn’t just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the …