Online dating site OKCupid recently revealed some stats combed from their thousands of users regarding the role race and ethnicity play in determining who is responding to whose online profiles. The results may surprise you. If you’ve been living under a rock.
13 October 2009
Online Hating: OKCupid Says Your Race And Ethnicity Impact Who Writes You Back
By Alex Alvarez at 12:00 PM.
14 July 2009
“You’re A Fucking Beaner! You’re All Beaners!” Screams Big Brother Contestant, Rather Incorrectly
By Alex Alvarez at 2:30 PM.
Season 11 of Big Brother has, of course, its very own resident racist, this time in the form of internationally-renowned model / actor / pouty person / corny-ass loser Braden.
9 July 2009
Covering The Coverage: On Ben Vargas And What It Means To Be “Ethnic”
By Alex Alvarez at 2:30 PM.
Froma Harrop’s article on firefighter Ben Vargas asks whether he is a member of a racial minority or “an ethnic.” The answer to that, of course, is “Excuse me?”
6 May 2009
Concerns Surrounding Judge Sotomayor Prompts Us To Look Into The Myth Of The “Angry Latina”
By Alex Alvarez at 4:58 PM.
An interesting post on RaceWire today got us thinking about the myth of the “angry Latina.” When does a person get to earn, we wondered, the luxury of just being super fucking pissed?
24 April 2009
Biracial Panel To Hispanics: Choose A Race
By Alex Alvarez at 9:21 AM.
Organizers for Orange Country, Florida schools’ biracial committee have told Hispanics that they can participate once they have selected a race: black or white. We’ve said it often: Latino is not a race! It’s an ethnicity! But this has got us thinking: Can’t it be both?
