Weblog » Archives » October 2004

  • Natassia Malthe plays villainess Typhoid Mary in “Elektra” CVK From USA Today: “That's actress Natassia Malthe hovering over Garner in this exclusive first look at Typhoid Mary, the villainess out to get Jen in the Ja…

  • Biopic film debut “just fits perfectly” for Alicia Keys CVK England’s Daily Telegraph interviews Alicia Keys. Next spring she starts filming the lead in a biopic of Philippa Schuyler, a mixed-race pianist in New York i…

  • and Wales experiencing mixed baby boom CVK The Times has an opinion piece countering the recent comments by Trevor Philips, head of the U.K.’s Commission for Racial Equality, who claimed that “most Britons don’t know a…

  • Other countries adopting African-American babies CVK The Christian Science Monitor has an article about the fact that African-American babies are going to parents overseas even as US couples adopt children from other c…

  • Emmett Till case to be re-opened CVK Sunday’s 60 Minutes reported that this past spring, the U.S. Justice Department opened a new investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, based on evidence suggesting that mor…

  • How Latinos self-identified in Census 2000 CVK Props to The Melting Blog for this graphic. As you can see – without the “Some Other Race” category, the population estimates for “white” will be artificially inflated. …

  • Census bureau may eliminate “some other race” category CVK The New York Times reports that the Census Bureau is considering eliminating the “Some Other Race” category in the 2010 census. Why is this significant? Becaus…

  • Gish Jen on “the sideways glance” CVK I think a lot of us can relate to this. Gish Jen, author of the acclaimed new book The Love Wife, tells the Kansas City Star about the reactions she and her mixed family get walkin…

  • Filmmaker Eric Byler on why APAs need to vote CVK I got an email today from Eric Byler, asking me to link to a new essay he’s written for IMDiversity.com called “Political Observations from an APA Traveler.” Excerpts a…

  • How the Media Influences Society’s View of Race Relations CVK The Lantern, Ohio State University’s student paper, has an interesting story on a lecture that Dr. Carlos E. Cortes delivered at the school on how the media…

  • Walter Mosley on why he’s not “half white” CVK Las Vegas Mercury interviews writer Walter Mosley, best known for his series of detective novels about Ezekial "Easy" Rawlins. In 1995, the first book of the series, Devil…

  • Yet another horrific interracial dating guide CVK First came How to Meet and Attract Asian Women. Then came How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men. Now we have a new book, titled simply Dating Asian…

  • ACTION ALERT Help us speak out against The Larry Elder Show! CVK & JC “The Larry Elder Show” which aired on Monday, October 18, 2004 was titled “When Race Becomes A Dividing Issue in A Relationship.” It was an ext…

  • Our Letter to The Larry Elder Show CVK & JC This letter was sent to the Larry Elder himself, the producers of his show, and various executives at CBS. To Whom It May Concern: We are writing to you about the…

  • The lowdown on yesterday’s “The Larry Elder Show” CVK Yesterday’s episode of daytime talk show The Larry Elder Show on interracial couples was just as awful as I expected (see yesterday’s post “Groan… another bad talk …

  • Rachael Yamagata is no Norah Jones clone CVK The Mercury News interviews singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata. On being compared to fellow biracial musician Norah Jones: “I take the good from it and then not worry ab…

  • Soca artist Rupee discusses his mixed heritage CVK Soundgenerator.com interviews soca artist Rupee, who--like Kevin Lyttle before him--is finding crossover appeal with his hit single “Tempted to Touch.” He discusses ho…

  • Groan… another bad talk show on interracial relationships CVK As we all know, we can always count on daytime talk shows to deliver intelligent and nuanced insights into the nature of interracial relationships and mixed…

  • “CSI” features mixed family in need of bone marrow CVK(Sorry that I’m a little late with this, but I Tivo-d it and was only able to watch it over the weekend.) Last Thursday’s episode of “CSI” centered on the disapp…

  • SwirlBay Area featured in new documentary CVKThose of you who are in the Sacramento area should check out a new documentary about mixed people called “A Beautiful Blend: Mixed Race in America.” It will air on Wednesday,…

  • Prince gets political with Cinnamon Girl JC ABC News Online reports that Prince’s video (to be released next month) for song, Cinnamon Girl (off album Musicology), is proving to be a little controversial. The star of t…

  • “Spin” highlights an interracial romance JC Deseret News reviews Spin, directed by James Redford. Out in theaters today, this film is based on a book by Donald Everett Axinn. James, son of Robert Redford, says he never…

  • How identifying as mixed affects college admissions CVK The Boston Globe has an article discussing the disparate policies various college and universities have towards how applicants identify their race. It’s no surpri…

  • Race is a social construct: $4M campaign to educate public CVK The Baltimore Sun has an excellent 2-part article on race and biology. The first part of the article discusses the advances in genetics that are debunking…

  • Youth feel that the stigma of being mixed race has faded JC Silver Chips Online (the independent student newspaper of Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland) interviews a few of its multiracial student…

  • A new biography captures Alice Walker’s life JC The Washigton Post reviews Evelyn C. White’s new release, Alice Walker: A Life. White's attentiveness to personal stories as well as their historical context is th…

  • Tiger Woods gets hitched! CVK The New York Post reports that Tiger Woods married his girlfriend, Elin Nordegren yesterday in Barbados: “Some 120 friends and relatives from around the world flew in for the lavish cer…

  • Off-Broadway, Blue Bloods Wake Up Black JCD Playbill and the Village Voice review the play White Chocolate, which we first told you about on September 19. In the play, two Manhattan blue bloods wake up to suddenly find…