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What The Notorious BIG Can Tell Us About Race and Immigration
By Guest Contributor Jeremy R. Levine, originally published at Social Science Lite In Black Identities, Harvard sociologist Mary Waters analyzes the racial and ethnic identities of first and second...
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Discovering “Great” Pinoy Funk
By Guest Contributor Ninoy Brown, originally published at FOBBDeep Recently, a personal mission of mine has been to scour for Pinoy funk. Music from the Philippines, as well as from Filipinos living...
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Feminism For Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism
by Latoya Peterson Our multi-talented homegirl Jessica Yee just edited and published her first anthology. Called Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism, Yee and...
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Going Native: The Racialicious Review Of Down & Delirious In Mexico City
By Arturo R. García Toward the end of Down & Delirious In Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis In The Twenty-First Century, author Daniel Hernandez talks about encountering a group of seven muses....
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Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
By Andrea Plaid See, I think writing about this particular crush should be as easy as posting Johnson’s photo like this: Courtesy: moviespad.com and saying the we love him ’cause of reasons. But...
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Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Harry Belafonte
By Andrea Plaid Harry Belafonte’s music moves in my mind and life like a childhood memory: I know he’s there and smile or dance when I hear one of his songs just for the little-kid joy it brings to me....
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Afro-Latin And The Negro Common: An Interview With Dr. Marco Polo...
By Guest Contributor Lamont Lilly The author (L) with Dr. Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas. Courtesy of the author. Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas is the Interim Chair of the Department of Modern Foreign...
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An African Election Tweet-Up: Pan-Africanism And Ghana’s 2008 Election
Pan-Africanism has such a hold on quite a few progressive people’s imaginations, but why and, more specifically, how did it play out in the 2008 election of where that philosophy originated, Ghana, as...
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Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Mira Nair
By Andrea Plaid Having watched several of Mira Nair’s films repeatedly, I swear her guiding directive is, “If you’re 1) brown, 2) grown, and 3) sexy, you need to be in my film.” From Mississippi...
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Meanwhile, On TumblR: Intergenerational Afropolitan Genius
By Andrea Plaid This photo of literary/cultural African American female icons got lots of love this week: L-r: Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, and Angela Davis. Photo credit: Jim Stroup. This video of...
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Call For Submissions: ¿Y Tu Abuela, Donde Está?: Multi-dimensional...
The Migration of Afro-Latin@s. Via williamsbsu.wordpress.com “The Black and White Dialogue on race and culture in the United States has consistently ignored the existence of more than 150 million...
View ArticleRacialicious Crush Of The Week: Suheir Hammad
By Andrea Plaid Since it’s National Poetry Month, let’s talk about one of my favorite poets: Suheir Hammad. Of course, Hammad speaks quite a few women of color’s truth with her classic piece, “Not Your...
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FYI: “Black” doesn’t mean “African-American”
By Guest Contributor T. F. Charlton; originally published as Grace is Human A couple nights ago I made an offhand comment on Twitter about the conflation of “Black” with “African American” – the two...
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Voices: March For Immigrant Dignity And Respect
By Arturo R. García About 3,000 people attended the March for Immigrant Dignity and Respect in San Diego, Calif. All pictures by Arturo R. García. On Saturday, thousands of immigrants and immigration...
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Chinese like You: White Adoptive Mothers and the Reality of Racial Privilege
By Guest Contributor Sara Erdmann Cover to “Forever Lily: An Unexpected Mother’s Journey to Adoption in China.” Despite the fact that international adoption has become commonplace — most recent studies...
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The Forgotten Story of Japanese American Zoot Suiters
By Guest Contributor Ellen D. Wu, cross-posted from Nikkei Chicago Sus Kaminaka was a zoot suiter: one of the many young people in 1940s America who embraced a distinctive, working-class urban...
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Self-Healing From American Racism
By Guest Contributor Marly Pierre-Louis All images provided by the author. I love a good adventure. So when my partner asked, “How would you feel about moving to Amsterdam?” I was game. Between the...
View ArticleDenying Racism in Cape Town Is About Lack of Empathy
by Guest Contributor Luso Mnthali, originally published at AfriPop I was on radio the other day, trying to explain to Shado Twala, well-known radio and television personality here in South Africa, how...
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