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Help Latino Gang Intervention Project

4, Mar 2010

Latino youth from Oakland have been nominated to receive a $50,000 grant, but need community-based votes to win it.
The Urban Services Comprehensive Gang Intervention program was introduced in 2009, focusing on violence prevention, and inspiring current gang members to change their lives. Central to the program is preparing gang members to meet with rival gangs [...]

Furor Over Store’s English Only Rule

30, Jan 2010

New Haven, Connecticut’s Atticus Bookstore/Café is at the center of a controversy involving a new store rule forbidding Latino employees from speaking Spanish within earshot of customers.
Atticus Bookstore/Café is located near Yale University, and its new policy was covered by the Yale Daily News, which first reported this story. “In an announcement recently released to [...]

Race and Popular Culture This Week

15, Jan 2010

Racialicious posted on the Essence magazine controversy regarding interracial dating and Reggie Bush as cover model. Coming out characteristically unscathed is Kim Kardashian, Bush’s white girlfriend, the socetial prism of race and the places people occupy in the context of institutional racism.
What is worth examining in the piece is how Kardashian’s whiteness individually as well [...]

Knitta Please & Embrace vs. Solidarity

23, Dec 2009

Alexis presented a concluding (?) post on the Knitta Please saga, but I wanted to update readers, and expand on some thoughts.
Magdalena Sayeg wrote a rebuttal to concerns raised about Knitta Please as a take on the slang phrase ‘n—– please.’ Her rebuttal boils down to the following:

She is Arab-American.
Knitta Please is her embrace of [...]

Knitta Please, Racism & the Backlash

16, Dec 2009

Critiques of racist inflection by Knitta Please, the Houston-launched project, are generating many important discussions worth updating you on.
Alexis L. has posted a roundup of anti-racist actions and resources related to Knitta Please, including speaking out against the collective’s racial characterizations.
With Knitta Please participants continuing to turn a nice buck off of Black caricaturing, it [...]

Knitta Please, Racism & Appropriation

15, Dec 2009

A conversation about racism and Knitta Please, a Houston-based art protest collective that has seen a lot of publicity, is ongoing and absorbing. Knitta Please may not have had the look at race the name draws in — at least it’s never happened in an interview I’ve seen so far.
I heard about Knitta Please some [...]

Four Ways Racism Did In Gene Locke

13, Dec 2009

Houston, Texas has become the first major metropolitan city to elect an openly gay mayor, Annise Parker. Parker, former co-owner (with KPFT stalwart Pokey Anderson) of the late feminist bookstore Inklings and a longtime GLBT activist, accomplished something Montrose institution Ray Hill said he’d waited 40 years to see. And much will be made of [...]


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