March 02, 2009
Excerpted by Latoya Peterson The pressure young black women feel to defend black men against racist attacks, even at their own expense, is a new variation on the centuries old standard for black women’s race loyalty. This community wide standard - which asks women to take the hit (metaphorical...
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
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February 26, 2009
This one’s largely for Big U in the gender-and-race debate, but we could all use a good laugh. P.S. Louis C.K. is one of the funniest damn guys out there....
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February 19, 2009
by Latoya Peterson (Continued from Part 1) LP: [We should] think some more about this formula, because it seems to me that with every year that passes, the formula gets whittled down into the need to find the next hit. Catchy hooks, lyrics, whatever - they just want a hit. And it appears that some o...
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February 04, 2009
After eight years of disappointment, my nihilistic veneer is cracking. It's been less than two weeks since Obama's inauguration but he's already signed executive orders to close Guantanomano, seal CIA detention centers worldwide, end torture, institute transparency at the highest level of government...
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January 28, 2009
I just got off the phone with fellow AdAge Power 150 blogger CR Ransom and we had quite an amazing chat. CR runs Mosnar Communications, Inc. Public Relations, an Atlanta-based firm focused on the African American luxury market, “folks who have over $250,000 a year to spend on lifestyle.̶...
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December 18, 2008
Barack Obama's cabinet is now complete with the selection of African American Ron Kirk as U.S. Trade Representative and Latina Rep. Hilda Solis as Secretary of Labor: - 5 Women (Clinton, Napolitano, Rice, Jackson, Solis)- 4 African Americans (Holder, Rice, Jackson, Kirk)- 5 Westerners (Salazar, Rich...
The Mad Professah Lectures
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November 12, 2008
by Latoya Peterson Today, I talked a bit about Vicky Cristina Barcelona and introduced the concept of the Bedchel Test. Here’s the original comic the test came from: So, after rejoicing over how brilliant the test is in its simplicity, I started wondering - could we adapt the Bechdel test for ...
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October 14, 2008
I pick on religion a lot. I should probably mention that I acknowledge that religion has been responsible for encouraging some of the best in people, as well as providing an excuse for them to indulge in their worst instincts. Religion can bring out the very best in people. It can bring out a goodne...
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October 13, 2008
I don't agree with Melissa McEwan that McCain saying he was going to "whip [Obama's] you-know-what in this debate" was inappropriate. While "owning the context is precisely the pity phrase I was struggling to find in my own post on the topic, I disagree with her that it's impossible to extricate a p...
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June 21, 2008
This is my most popular Second Life blog. See my blog click here. Blue balls and pink balls, Bback balls or white balls The first cast, fair skinned overall Second Life is a place where our social binaries are deployed to create identities. In nature we are given a wide range of types. Reality...
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