Racial Stereotypes

Being a Minority in a Major: Journalism

Sarah Yu | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Asian Americans, Racial Stereotypes, Asian American Students, Asian-Americans-Stereotypes, Journalism-Major, Teen News

As a Korean-American, it is automatically assumed that I am a pharmacy student due to my ethnicity. Sometimes I do get offended when someone asks, "So how's pharmacy going?"

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Think Before You Stereotype

Iman Hariri-Kia | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: 9/11, September 11, Islamophobia, Racial Stereotypes, Teen News

After the Iraq War started, a girl came up to me on the playground and shouted, "Pick a side, terrorist." Her father was serving in the American military in Iraq and she assumed that was where I was from.

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WATCH: 'Dateline' Parents Say 'My Kid Would Never...Discriminate'

Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: My Kid Would Never Do That, Stereotypes, Kids and Discrimination, Natalie Morales, Dateline NBC, Dateline, Natalie Morales Dateline, Discrimination, Racial Stereotypes, Natalie Morales Child, Hidden Camera, Racial Discrimination, Video, Black Voices News

The stakes are high for a group of teenagers trying out for a fictional television quiz show called "Smart, Smarter, Smartest," and competitive situat...

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Fathers From Around The Country Didn’t Allow Huggies To Disrespect Them

Etan Thomas | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Dad Stereotypes, Dads Huggies, Huggies, Stereotypes, Huggies Petition, Racial Stereotypes, Huggies Dads, change.org, Huggies-Dad-Test-Campaign, Parents News

Society has become comfortable with the notion that the typical father is not capable of actually being a responsible father.

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Signs and Society: Acting Without Thinking

Samantha Tritsch | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Tragedy, Signs, Philosophy, Stereotypes, Trayvon Martin, Racism, Racial Stereotypes, Race, Symbols, College News

Ultimately, as it goes in America, a jury will ultimately decide what happened on the night Trayvon Martin was found dead. They will piece together all the evidence provided and images, and put together a narrative that we can only hope, will act in the name of equality and justice.

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Complicating the Racist Hunger Games Tweets

Lori Ungemah | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Racial Stereotypes, Post Racial America, Racial Discrimination, The Hunger Games, Teaching Literacy, Hunger Games Thresh, Hunger Games Rue, Hunger Games Racial Tweets, Hunger Games Race, Hunger Games Tweets, Education News

Articles are examining what the tweeters said and the potential whys behind their actions, but nobody is branching out to ask, "What next?"

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Black Children More Optimistic On Race Than Whites: Report

Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Anderson Cooper, Video, Anderson Cooper 360, Racial Stereotypes, Anderson-Cooper-Children-and-Race, Race, Children, Trayvon Martin, Black Voices News

In a follow-up to a 2010 study that examined children's attitudes on race, and on the heels of the racially-charged killing of Florida teenager Trayvo...

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Human Interest Stories Reveal the Worst in Us

Byron Williams | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Whitney Houston Dead, Offending People, Jeremy Lin, Whitney Houston, Racial Stereotypes, Jeremy Lin Linsanity, Celebrity News

At what point in our public discourse does good taste factor? Do reasonable persons determine good taste only after our desires for the sensational have irretrievably crossed the moral line? Maybe poor taste is an oversimplification.

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Stereotyping and Prejudice Is Alive and Well in American Society

Bethany St. James | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Prostitution, Racial Stereotypes, Stereotypes, Prejudice, Sex, Racial Profiling, Talk Shows, Culture News

The stereotype that prostitutes are drug-addicted women with sad childhoods was, and remains, prevalent.

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The Dangers of Being a Model Minority

Ellie Williams | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Asian F, Asian Americans, Asian Stereotypes, Racial Stereotypes, Tiger Mothers, Asian Students, High School News

Under the label of the model minority, Asian Americans can never reach their full potential. But without it, Asian Americans are free to pursue careers in any field, not just those involving math or science.

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Elle France Gets 'Black Style' Wrong

The Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Black Women, Rihanna, Michelle Obama, Jackie Magazine, Elle France, Hair-Beauty, Elle France Blog, Black Style, First Lady Michelle Obama, Fashion Magazine, Racial Stereotypes, Nathalie Dolivo, Elle, Diversity, French Elle, Solange Knowles, Black Voices News

Another day, another journalist puts their foot in their mouth. The dust has hardly settled from the melee surrounding the Dutch magazine Jackie, ...

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I'm Just A Person

Charissa Newkirk | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Black, Martin Luther King Day, Racial Stereotypes, Race, Diversity, Affirmative Action, High School News

When I fill out a college application, they will never know that I sing in the shower and used to play with Harry Potter Legos. What will they see? I'm a girl. I'm smart. And I'm black.

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Papa Johns Receipt Calls Customers OUTRAGEOUS Racial Slur

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Employee Racism, Pizza, Racist, Papa John's, Papa John's Store, Racism, Racial Names, Racial Stereotypes, Papa Johns's Pizza, Racial Slurs, New York News

Minhee Cho went to Papa John's for some fast food goodness. Little did she know, she would get it served with a side of racism. At around 12:30 p.m...

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Much Ado About 'Juan Huevos' And 'Jose Frijoles'

The Huffington Post | Ray Sanchez | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Video, Cultura, Jose Frijoles, Much Ado About Nothing, Juan Huevos, Racial Stereotypes, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Latino Voices News

The unfortunately named characters Juan Huevos and Jose Frijoles in a new version of "Much Ado About Nothing" at Washington D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre...

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A How-to-Guide for a PC Halloween

Naima Ramos-Chapman | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Racism, Homosexuality, Halloween Costumes, Heterosexism, Postbourgie, Stereotypes, Racial Stereotypes, Slutwalk, Black Voices News

Since any costume malfunction can end up in tragic social-suicide, I'd like to take the time to list a few do's and don'ts for costume choices in and out of the office.

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The Problem with Diversity Training

Dion Nicole | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Postbourgie, Diversity Training, Diversity, Workplace Diversity, Office-Culture, Culture, Workplace Discrimination, Office Culture, Office-Diversity, Racial Stereotypes, Black Voices News

Recently, in my office, we had to undergo mandatory diversity training. I expected it to be bad. wasn't expecting be infuriated.

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WATCH: Debating The 9/11 Coloring Book, Islamophobic or Education Tool?

Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: American Islamophobia, Islam, Dawud Walid, 9/11 Coloring Book, Decade After 9/11 - Entertainment and Culture, 9/11, Decade After 9/11 - Coping, Islamophobia, Video, Drew Show, Racial Stereotypes, Wayne-Bell, September 11 Anniversary, Minorities in Coloring Books, Religion News

Recently on the Dr. Drew Show, Wayne Bell, the author of a new coloring book "We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids Book of Freedom" and Dawud Walid, t...

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Mulattos, Mammies and Maids: Accessing 'The Help'

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: The Help, Racial Stereotypes, African Americans, Film, Race Issues, The Help Film, The Help Movie, The Help Race Issues, Race Relations, Black Voices News

This film tells a story many blacks and whites would rather forget, how black women stepped up and did what they must to survive. That's a story important enough to make all the film's faults minor by contrast.

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WATCH: Confronting Asian-American Stereotypes Through Art

Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Portraiture Now Asian American Portraits of Encounter, Video, Racial Stereotypes in Art, Art and Stereotypes, Stereotyping, Smithsonian Portraiture Now, Portraiture Now, Asian Americans, Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Contemporary Art, Racial Stereotypes, Asian American Art, Asian American Portraits, Arts News

The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American American Program and the National Portrait Gallery's new exhibit, Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of ...

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WATCH: Flav's Fried Chicken Gets Its First Commercial

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Reality TV, Flav's Fried Chicken, Jimmy Kimmel, Flavor Flav, Racial Stereotypes, Public Enemy, Flavor Flav Chicken, Flava Flav Chicken, Flavor Flav Chicken Restaurant, Flava Flav Chicken Clinton Iowa, Clinton Iowa, Flava Flav Fried Chicken, Flavor Flav Fried Chicken, Comedy News

We've suspected for a while that Flavor Flav is really an experimental dadaist performance artist using popular culture itself as his canvas, and his ...

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Latoya Peterson: Media, Entrepreneurship and Birth of a New Nation

Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Racialicious, Black Media, Corporate Media, Social Entrepreneurship, Racism, Racial Disparities, Racial Stereotypes, Media, Race, Entrepreneurship, Minority, Journalism, Media News

At the intersection where social media and entrepreneurship meet technology and racial issues, you will find Latoya Peterson hard at work changing Ame...

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Reagan's Welfare Queen has Morphed into the Health Care Queen

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Welfare Queens are portrayed as lazy leeches on society, pilfering money from "hard working people's taxes." In any large group, some will take advantage of the system, but that doesn't mean the system should be abolished.

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Why Oprah and Everyone Else Swallowed Storro's Lie That a Black Did It

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bethany Storro Wounds, Bethany Storro, Crime, Bethany Storro Acid Attack, African-American Males, Violence, Racism, African-American Females, Racial Stereotypes, Bethany Storro Self Inflicted, Politics News

Oprah shouldn't feel too bad that she initially swallowed whole Bethany Storro's lying claim that a black doused her face with acid and then booked he...

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World Racism: Summer of Love and Hate

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bnp, Rutv, Far Right, Racial Prejudice, Music Festival, Political Activism, Global-Activism, Racism, Racial Stereotypes, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Racial Profiling, Entertainment News

Whether you are the "hater" or the "hated," having a common enemy quickly unites people who are like minded -- for better or for worst.

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Brett Favre: Does Race Factor in Why Favre Gets Special Treatment?

Dexter Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peyton Manning, Racial Stereotypes, Race, Brett Favre, Minnesota Vikings, Media, Sports News

Favre without question is a great player. But part of his greatness has been manufactured. Favre can make the connection due to his complexion with those who comprise the media.

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