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DISGRASIAN OF THE WEAK! Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Mini For Target Collection
by Guest Contributor Jen Wang, originally published at Disgrasian I know, I know. It’s just a clothing line! Lighten up! And it’s so kawaii as the ads keep telling me, forcing the word on me like a...
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All American Muslim Loses A Bunch Of Tools
By Arturo R. García Nobody’s saying All-American Muslim is perfect, but when was the last time a reality show was attacked for being … you know, realistic? Yet that seems to be at the heart of the...
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Bad Sign Language: Why We’re Not Loving This McDonalds/Barbie Collaboration
By Arturo R. García Film critic Kartina Richardson sent us a link to the picture above, taken at a McDonald’s restaurant during a recent visit. “We’re not as race conscious as we think,” she wrote. In...
View ArticleThe Racist Super Bowl Commercial You Might Have Missed
By Arturo R. García A number of ads during the Super Bowl Sunday night focused on the good things about Detroit and the auto industry. But the worst commercial of the day, aimed at Michigan voters,...
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DISGRASIAN OF THE WEAK! Vagina Whitening (That’s Right, You Heard Me)
By Guest Contributor Jen Wang, cross-posted from Disgrasian One year I vacationed in Mexico and spent the entire time in the water, body surfing and boogie boarding. My skin got really dark, which I...
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Half-Baked: Popchips And Ashton Kutcher’s Brownface Fiasco
By Arturo R. García Courtesy: New York Times Yes, that’s Ashton Kutcher as “Raj” in the photo above. But besides being offensive, the ad–which was pulled from YouTube and Facebook Wednesday night–was...
View ArticleRace + Politics: Univision Flexes Some Muscle
By Arturo R. García With the Latino electorate emerging more and more as a key constituency, the dust-up over this commercial highlights the tightrope both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will...
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Adidas ‘Shackle Shoes’ Get The Boot
By Arturo R. García Courtesy: CNN Not even Run-DMC could’ve made these Adidas sound like a good idea. Fortunately, the company reversed course Monday, opting not to release the shoes pictured above,...
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Taco Bell Con Artistry (Continued)
by Guest Contributor Highjive, originally published at MultiCultClassics A comment left for the previous post rightly wondered who Taco Bell is really addressing with its campaign starring Chef Lorena...
View ArticleMeanwhile, On TumblR: More Scot Nakagawa Love And HBO Def Poet Mark Gonzales
By Andrea Plaid Considering how you all responded to the excerpt last week, you’re still digging our past Crush Of The Week Scot Nakagawa, especially what he said about voting and the maintenance of...
View ArticleRacialicious Crush Of The Week: Restaurant Opportunities Centers United’s...
By Andrea Plaid You know I love the hell out of something or someone when I have to write a second post about it/them. In my interview with Crush alum Yvonne Yen Liu, I posted this video ROC United...
View ArticleThe Least Happy Jamaican: On Volkswagen’s Super Bowl Commercial
By Guest Contributor Suzanne Persard Am I the last Jamaican to miss the happiness train? After millions of hits on YouTube and a whirl of international attention, arguably the most popular commercial...
View ArticleThe Racialicious Entertainment Roundup 2.8.13
By Arturo R. García and Kendra James So God Made A Latino Farmer: While most of us watching the Super Bowl were creeped out by the latest GoDaddy crime against humanity, Dodge tried to get slick with...
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Meanwhile, On TumblR: Casual Racism In LGBTQ Communities, Banning Beloved,...
By Andrea Plaid Via kasamaproject.org Everyday Feminism’s contributing writer Jarune Uwujaren wrote a post (which is excerpted on the R’s Tumblr) that resonated with a lot of Racializens about casual...
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Meanwhile On TumblR: Whitewashing Urban Fantasy And Anti-Asian Racism In Porn...
By Andrea Plaid Two form of entertainment with passionate defenders garnered some great critiques that drew quite a bit of Tumblr attention this week, starting with Chronicles of Harriet’s Balogun...
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Controlling Portions, Controlling Pregnancies: Race And Class Panic In New...
Poster for New York City’s “Real Cost of Teen Pregnancy” campaign. Via NYC.gov By Guest Contributor Sayantani DasGupta This month, New York City launched a new campaign called “The True Cost of Teen...
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Retrolicious–Mad Men 6.4: “To Have And To Hold”
Hosted by Tami Winfrey Harris and Andrea Plaid The crew at Sterling Cooper Draper Price were definitely trying to hold on to something this week–a sliver of self-respect, an image of the role of other...
View ArticleWTF? Supercute Cheerios Ad Featuring Mixed-Race Family Rallies The Racists
By Andrea Plaid Now, I can understand critiquing this Cheerios commercial for being, say, heterosexist–and even at that, that’s not a critique that unto itself would shut down a YouTube comment...
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Meanwhile, On TumblR: The Cheerios Ad Meme That Says It All
By Andrea Plaid The meme not only encapsulates the foolishness of the outrage about the Cheerios ad, but the historical foolishness that banned interracial marriage in the first place–the ban that was...
View ArticleOpen Thread: A Tale Of Two (Racialized) Spoofs
By Andrea Plaid I really need to figure out why people outside of Black communities stay needing to play around with still-volatile n-word. It just doesn’t go too well, especially when folks want to...
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