Ethnicity

Cheerios ad puts the spotlight on racism in 2013

You’ve probably heard/seen/read about the latest Cheerios commercial, but in the event that you’ve escaped the uproar, here’s a summary behind the madness: In the ad, a young biracial girl asks her caucasian mother about the health benefits of Cheerios. After her mother assures her that Cheerios are good for the heart, the daughter dumps a box of cereal on the chest of her sleeping dad. He happens to be a dark-skinned african american male, which is what has folks worked up. Read the last sentence again. “He happens to be…

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UFC Athlete Gives Inappropriate Interview

The UFC has been getting a lot of flack lately. Whether it is denying an one-armed undefeated man to compete within the organization or for refusing to allow a transgender woman to compete, people have been voicing their distaste for the organization. Chael Sonnen, a Caucasian UFC fighter, was on ESPN to promote a fight he has coming up against Jon Jones when in the middle of the interview he asked to touch the anchor’s hair. This all seemed harmless so Sage Steele, the African American anchor, leaned her head…

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My Culture isn’t a Costume

A couple of weeks ago Selena Gomez performed her new song “Come and Get It” at the MTV Movie Awards. She came under fire for her performance, but not because of the sexually-themed song but because of the costume she chose. Selina wore a red Bollywood-inspired costume complete with a bindi on her forehead. A bindi is a jewel or powder-based ornament placed between the eyebrows of women in India. The bindi represents a spiritual or religious symbol that is deeply important to the culture in India. After wearing her…

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TV Shows: Women Writers Need Not Apply

The results are in, and they are discouraging. The Writers Guild of America just released their 2013 TV Staffing Brief for the 2011-2012 TV season, and the outlook is as frustrating as ever:  Of 1722 writers who wrote for 190 shows, 519 or 30.5 percent of them were women, and 269 of them were people of color. For women, those numbers are up 5 percent from the 1999-2000 television season—as the report put it, “At this rate of increase, it would be another 42 years before women —roughly half of…

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Brown, Black, Asian: One Word Can’t Define a Woman of Color

Although the title of this article implies that it is about women, this article can be related to by any person of color. Articles like this are important in our society, because we are taught to lump so many different people into one group and categorize them. When you think about it, it seems odd that we’ve taken people’s ethnic backgrounds and usually refer to them as colors – it’s such a shallow abbreviation of their heritage. So, I wanted to share this great article by Kevynn Gomez from Feminspire…

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