The 10th Erase Racism Carnival

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I'm currently hosting the Erase Racism Carnival on my blog, Racialicious. There were so many great links that I thought I'd cross-post it here. Consider this a super-sized link post. :)

The Erase Racism Carnival is a collection of blog posts dedicated to creating a world free of racism. It's published around the 20th of every month. The idea is to get more people blogging and/or reading about creating a world free of racism. It's also a great way to get new readers for your blog. If you would like to host a future edition, check for availability here and email vegankid or Rachel with your interest.

I've grouped the submissions by theme, though naturally there's plenty of overlap:

• Race and Racism in the Media and Pop Culture
• Race, Racism and Parenting
• Alliance-Building in Fighting Racism
• Oppression and Discrimination
• White Supremacy and White Privilege

Race and Racism in the Media and Pop Culture

300
Blog: Cynical Anti-Orientalist
While I understand that the film was based on a comic book, I found the portrayals of Persians (played by people of all backgrounds) disturbing. Without throwing a fit about orientalist ideas of the Near East, let me list some problems I personally had with the film (with a queer, feminist and woman of color perspective of course)...

The ‘Nigger’ Top 10
Blog: Undercover Black Man
Rather than construct a logic-based argument against the prohibitionists, I thought it’d be fun to assemble a list of the all-time most socially redeeming usages of the word “nigger.” This would show by example that the word itself is neither good nor evil. It’s an instrument with which to convey ideas – as all words are – and thus has a right to exist.

World White News Coverage
Blog: Double Consciousness
I than said how the way the news is going about presenting the news is basically wrong. She's talking about how they need to appeal to a mass audience and yet she seems to be saying she's appealing to a white audience, which is not the majority demographic in the Bay Area.

Faces in the Crowd
Blog: Double Consciousness
Walking into The Filmore all one could see was a sea of white faces (which I'm guilty of myself) and barely any people of color, which is the demographic that The Coup would want to target, especially since their music talks about liberation, the overthrow of capitalism, and white supremacy, and racism.

Framing Barack Obama and Black Voters
Blog: Rachel's Tavern
This is the same problem we see time and time again with the media coverage of Obama and Black voters. Many people seem to be perplexed as to why black voters are not flocking to Obama in droves, and then they are shocked that black voters are deliberative, taking time to analyze Obama’s positions.

I Bless the Rains Down in Africa
Blog: Pitchfork
Like most of you reading this, I know far more about the people and places of the Star Wars universe than of Africa. Even though Star Wars is a movie, and Africa is the second-largest continent on Earth and the birthplace of mankind, I spend roughly nada time thinking about the latter, while the former has shaped my life since I was four.

Graphic Novel — American Born Chinese
Blog: Zuky
Last Sunday night, I stretched out on the couch, turned on a reading lamp, and read Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel American Born Chinese in one delighted sitting, engrossed and elated by the book's fresh look at growing up as a Chinese boy in America. It was a terrific read.

Karen Scott’s Racism in Romance Survey
Blog: The Way There
Our books are marketed based on our race. We are treated a certain way because we are black and no other reason. We are excluded from many venues in the romance community because we are black. But nobody is ever racist or acts in a racist manner unless it’s in KKK fashion. Even though nothing is more significant than race to a black author, viewing things racially is fundamentally wrong–even though we’re primarily defined by our race within our writing careers.

“Po’pay, A True American Hero”…An Ambitious Documentary About an Amazing Man
Blog: NativeVue
Several years ago, the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo in New Mexico teamed up with filmmakers Derek Stokes and Catherine Angeles of Skalalitude Productions to change all that. Their upcoming feature-length documentary, Po’pay, A True American Hero, will pay tribute to the man,