Posted in Advertising, Arts, Culture, Media on Jul 23rd, 2009
If you took Dave Chappelle, Dr. Ruth, Dr. Phil, Noam Chomsky, William Prescott and mixed them all together you would get Gustavo Arellano. He has been labeled by some Mexicans on one end of the spectrum as a Vendido (sell out) and by others a quintessential intelligent articulate writer and every thing in between.
Posted in Advertising, Media, Race on Jun 3rd, 2009
Freelance writer, novelist, and screenwriter Erica Kennedy’s Facebook group, Feminista’s Advertising Hall of Fame (or Lame?), documents the “best and worst examples of commercial advertising.” In fact, this winner, above, isn’t an ad, as American Apparel rushed to make clear, shortly after the page ran in i-D Magazine back in 2007, but part of that [...]
Posted in Media on May 15th, 2009
Your tv tells you that black Americans are athletically gifted and physically intimidating. It also tells you that if they’re not, then they must be funny, a criminal, or an excellent communicator. Your tv does not tell you that black Americans, generally speaking, are capable leaders in every walk of life, although at least one [...]
Posted in Advertising, Entertainment, Media, Race on Apr 29th, 2009
Thankfully, it appears that the Six Flags chain has retired last year’s version of its current ad campaign, the extensive run of which led me to write the following post on my blog, MEDIA ASSASSIN.
—Harry Allen
I’m surprised Racialicious hasn’t picked this apart, yet: Six Flags’ “More Flags, More Fun!” campaign, and its English-gargling Asian pitchman.
Posted in Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Media, Race on Apr 22nd, 2009
I don’t know how, until this very morning, I missed the April 15 New York Times profile of white rapper Asher Roth by former VIBE music editor Jon Caramanica (”To Be Young, Rapping and White,” it was near sacrilegously titled), but it was certainly worth the wait.
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Culture, Education, Immigration, Media, Politics, Racism on Apr 22nd, 2009
Okay, I agree. The title of this post is a terrible pun. But what can you do but laugh at the ignorance exhibited by Texas Republican official Betty Brown? The problem isn’t her confusion over the transliteration of Chinese names. The problem is that she refers to Chinese Americans as “your citizens” when speaking to [...]
Posted in Arts, Business, Entertainment, Happiness, Media on Apr 15th, 2009
I could attach it to my new fat Mac, the one-drive wonder that set me back the outrageous sum of $2795 and it might have done some significantly awesome black and white graphics with MacPaint, one of the two programs it ran, but the laser printer was still an embryo in a university lab somewhere.
A black municipal judge in Dallas is taking heat for a line from a newspaper column he wrote earlier this month: “Black folks have been cleaning up white folks’ messes for hundreds of years, so why should we expect any different now?”
Forget, for a minute, whether the statement is simply true or baldly bigoted. [...]
Posted in Advertising, Media, Race on Mar 25th, 2009
“Images of Black women that are in fact ‘national, racial, and historical hallucinations’ have been ingrained into the collective conscience of the United states since slavery. Black women have been depicted either naked, generally in an ethnographic context, or as laborers, usually domestic, their social status playing a crucial role in the development of visual [...]
Posted in Arts, Culture, Entertainment, History, Media, Relationships on Mar 4th, 2009
Exline Park by R. C. Hickman (1955)
From the R. C. Hickman Photographic Archive at the
Center for American History, the University of Texas at Austin
I’m giving you really short notice, as this show will only be up until Sunday, March 8. But if you’re anywhere near the Irving Arts Center (3333 N. MacArthur Blvd) in Irving [...]
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