Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority
by Steven Phillips
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Frances Cress Welsing
Frances Cress Welsing
Psychiatrist
Frances Cress Welsing was an American Afrocentrist psychiatrist. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, offered her interpretation on the origins of what she described as white supremacy culture. -Wikipedia
Born: March 18, 1935, Chicago, IL
Died: January 2, 2016, Washington, D.C.
Books: The Isis (Yssis) papers
Movies: 500 Years Later
Education: Howard University (1962), Antioch College
In honor of Queen Mother #FrancesCressWelsing Here’s a video of her epic appearance on Phil Donahue https://t.co/8tQmbV83jm
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Elizabeth Acevedo – “Afro-Latina”
#EmergingUS: Dear Donald Trump
David Bowie: China Girl
Remarks:
My favourite David Bowie song. In 1983 it went to #10 on the US pop chart and #2 in Britain. It is his remake of the 1977 Iggy Pop song of the same name that they wrote together in a castle in France. Nile Rodgers produces, Stevie Ray Vaughn plays lead guitar.
The video was shot in Chinatown in Sydney, Australia. It was banned in several countries because of the love scene at the end.
This is the video, by the way, that beat out Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” for Best Male Video at the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. And that was after David Bowie had openly criticized MTV for being racist. Which brings up:
Is “China Girl” racist?
In 1983, Bowie said of the “China Girl” and “Let’s Dance” videos:
“They’re almost like Russian social realism, very naive. And the message that they have is very…
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Yuna – Crush ft. Usher
Music video by Yuna performing Crush. (C) 2016 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. http://vevo.ly/7ISito
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Multiracial Asian Families: [VIDEO] Raising Mixed Race @ Kinokuniya Seattle
by Sharon H. Chang
On Saturday afternoon, March 5, 2016 we held the first unbelievable Raising Mixed Race book signing at Kinokuniya Bookstore in Seattle’s International District. I say “we” because I was very intentional in organizing the event. I wanted it to be not just about me – but about community and centering, uplifting all mixed race, people and women of color voices; a transformative goal that actually lies at the center of Raising Mixed Race itself.
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Ron – Black, Cuban, Mexican and Switched at Birth as Chinese!
“As a sort of irony, I was born a Chinese baby. Baby Boy Wong”
Our friend Ron Lyles shares how he was mislabeled as a Chinese baby at birth, how his family’s former slave-owners found him, and the importance of including ‘culture’ in dialogues about race.
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If a Zebra doesn’t have all stripes, is it still a Zebra? [VIDEO]
“Zebra cousin went extinct 100 years ago. Now, it’s back”
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