Archive for January 17th, 2006
Chocolate New Orleans: Anti-Latino rhetoric?
6:56 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| race| society · 4 Comments
17 Jan 2006
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is at it again. He’s surfacing now to promote not just the rebuilding of New Orleans (I thought he had moved to Dallas?), but the rebuilding of a “Chocolate New Orleans”.
WTF?
“I don’t care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day,” Nagin said in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech. “This city will be a majority African-American city. It’s the way God wants it to be.”
Latinas Among the Best Dressed At Golden Globes
1:40 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities| Events| Fashion · 1 Comment
17 Jan 2006For those that doubt that Latinas are among the most beautiful mujeres in the world, I suggest looking at our representatives on the red carpet of last night’s Golden Globe Awards, like Jessica Alba and Eva Longoria.
First time nominee, Desparate Housewife Eva Longoria wore Bob Mackie. Española Penelope Cruz looked stunning as well.
Photos Via / E! Online
March to the beat of a same drum
1:39 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Music · 2 Comments
17 Jan 2006
Reggaeton is everywhere. On a recent trip to Spain, I planned to escape it for a while and listen to some, oh I don’t know, music that doesn’t repeatedly sing the praises of the canine sexual position. I don’t know why I was surprised to find that there was no escaping Reggaeton. It was all over Spain as well. In the smallish city of Zaragoza, in a small village in the middle of nowhere, on a rural bus headed towards some rural destination.
I martyrize myself thinking that it’s following me. The same song is following me everywhere.
Brazil’s Black Television Station: Is it Racist?
17 Jan 2006
If you watch Brazilian novelas (I sometimes do, you know that usually there is one Afro-Brazilian. Just one. If that character is a woman, she usually is the housekeeper. She usually is hot and earns the attention of a hot light skinned patron. If that character is a man, he is also usually a domestic worker and is also hot. He usually gains the attention of an older white patrona. If said dark skinned character doesn’t live in the big house then they live in the slums. So when TV da Gente, Brazil’s first black owned television station with programming directed at Brazil’s black population, made its debut last November why did people cry “racism”?
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