Race Focus Archives - Page 13 of 16

Notes Photo December 8, 2009

Shafting Tiger and Obama: That Sexually-Suggestive Golf Digest Cover

For whatever drama the new Tiger/Obama Golf Digest cover kicks up since Tiger hit the tree, it only gets in the way of seeing how sexually and racially exploitive it was in the first place.

Notes Photo August 8, 2009

Sotomayor Confirmed: Hip-Hop Hooray!

I'm wondering how much cultural and racial loading there is in juxtaposing America's first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice with a tag spray-painted on the wall outside her apartment building while also capturing her wave so it looks like a hip-hop gesture?

Notes Photo July 30, 2009

Your Turn: Reading The Beer Summit

BAGnewsNotes readers "read" The Obama Beer Summit.

Notes Photo July 29, 2009

Why Henry Louis Gates Should Sue

Given that the now dominant picture in my head of Henry Louis Gates highlights the man agitated and in handcuffs on his Massachusetts front porch, this photo gave me a start

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Budweiser Notwithstanding, Might Joe "Six Pack" Photo Op Reinforce "Obama Latte"?

To the extent that the Gates affair exposes a race/class divide, doesn't this photo op simply reinforce the split, with Obama further identified with Gates and the "Harvard elite"?

Notes Photo July 25, 2009

More Henry Louis Gates: Porch Choice Of Evidence

And then, isn't this arrest photo of Henry Louis Gates the quintessential racial projective -- to one eye, shouting racial profiling; to another, the picture of "uppity"?

Notes Photo July 24, 2009

Not So Subliminal CBS News Take-Away: Gates a Criminal

Yeah, it's not like CBS is playing the race card using visuals like these to tell the Gates story, right?

Notes Photo July 15, 2009

Sotomayor Confirmation: On the Backs of White Heroes

With the glow firefighters continue to carry from 9/11, this line of primarily white "first responders" makes for a vivid non-verbal argument that Sonia is stepping up to the high court on the backs of these white heros.

Notes Photo June 6, 2009

Mission Cairo: Barack Hussein Obama

Although Barack Obama's Muslim connections have been controversial at home, so much so the domestic press played it down on his Cairo trip, it's quite an asset in reaching out. It starts with just looking at him.

Notes Photo June 5, 2009

Your Turn: The Wise Latina

The place to turn for a thoughtful and robust deconstruction of National Review's weird "Wise Latina" Sotomayor cover? It's the BAGnewsNotes readership.

Notes Photo May 30, 2009

I Say Sotomayor, you Say… Lani Guinier (and the Smell of Scandal)

This image published by the NYT and likening Sonia Sotomayor to Lani Guinier not only sets up Sotomayor as a highly polarizing racial figure but encourages the consideration that that her nomination, as well as she herself, could be headed for deep trouble over "her racial views."

Notes Photo May 29, 2009

Your Turn: Latina Justice

This Sotomayor headline on the new TIME cover feels like a slam, picking up on the wing-nut meme that Sotomayor is a (reverse) racist.

Notes Photo February 18, 2009

Killing That Little Monkey

Well obviously the NY Post cartoon that kills the monkey for writing the stimulus bill is thoroughly racist, taking direct aim at Obama. Here's my analysis.

Notes Photo January 19, 2009

From The Roof Line

What I was reminded of, seeing this NYT roof line photo taken from the Obama "Freedom Train" on Saturday....

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On To Washington

Here in Birmingham, photographer Mario Tama is again tracing the sights, symbols and echoes of the civil rights movement in marking Martin Luther King Day and the Obama inauguration.

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Lincoln Memorial, May 1957

In recognition of Martin Luther King's birthday, and also the connection between King, Obama and the Lincoln Memorial -- especially after yesterday's inauguration celebration at the site. The image records the May 1957 'Prayer Pilgramage for Freedom.'

Notes Photo January 18, 2009

And, After The Train Goes By

On reflection, I can see how much I got pulled right into the romanticization of the Obama train ride to Washington.

Notes Photo January 14, 2009

Starting Off At The Chili Bowl

With the District being sold out in the recent White House/Dem - GOP budget deal, Washington now precluded from even using its own funds to pay for abortions for poor women, I was interested in this photo from the first days of the Obama Presidency, a photo-op offering Obama...