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Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images According to a new report, minorities who work in retail earn less and are less likely to be promoted than their white counterparts. The study, released yesterday by the NAACP and public-policy group Demos, found that retailers pay black and Latino full-time salespeople about 75 percent of what they pay…
The images are compelling, true, but they don’t compel due to any great variety. On the contrary, the experienced viewer will detect a certain dispiriting sameness almost from the outset. The only aspect that truly changes is the accompanying data, though this is mostly irrelevant detail. A boy (relevant detail: 12 years old) stands in a…
Believe it or not, I have actually gotten guff from a few individuals about my marriage being interracial, my friendships or company being non-Asian, and my choices of food and other pastimes not being Filipino. These individuals may think I am betraying my own race by not exclusively hanging with people who look like me, when in fact, they…
Witcher 3 is a fun game. It is also a game almost exclusively about white people. There are white humans, white elves, and white dwarfs with Scottish accents, and about a hundred different types of monsters that come in all shapes, sizes and colors of the rainbow. While playing the game you will encounter many…
by Jessica Goldstein Posted on June 3, 2015 at 10:03 am “Cameron Crowe Responds To Accusations Of Whitewashing In ‘Aloha’” CREDIT: Columbia Pictures/Allstar Cameron Crowe’s Aloha, has not been received well by the filmgoing public. Is this because Crowe made a really lousy movie? Well, he did, but the real outcry here is about a…
Survival indie MMO Rust recently changed how players were assigned characteristics for their avatar. Everyone used to start as a bald white man, then the developers decided to alter avatars’ race and face. Here’s the catch: You don’t get to choose. As lead developer and studio owner Garry Newman wrote: “Everyone now has a pseudo…
On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom they are working with. That’s a theory from…
A-Force, Spider-Gwen, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, Thor: There’s never been a better time for female superheroes and fans. Longer than a New York City block and bigger around than a California redwood, the shark bursts skyward from a turquoise whirlpool, jaws gnashing, purple energy beams flying from its mouth. “It’s a Megalodon!” shouts Captain Marvel,…
The 5 Most Insulting Defenses of Nerd Racism News has broken that Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle) is being considered to play Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) in the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. Naturally, comic book fans across the Internet are furious, because they’ve had it with all the reboots and just want to preserve the…
An explanation to why saying “I don’t see color” actually contributes to racism. Feminist Fridays Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/marinashutup Twitter: https://twitter.com/marinashutup Tumblr: http://marinashutup.tumblr.com/ Literary Tees: http://g4tsby.onlineshirtstores.com/ Sources: “Colorblindness: Challenging the Discourse of Contemporary U.S. Racism” by Rita Cameron Wedding, Ph. D. “The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender” by Dr. Boatamo Mosupyoe Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and…