The Ugly Stereotype Of An Ugly Stereotype?
In finding a "silver lining" in the Madoff scandal, does Newsweek make an ugly stereotype of "Uncle Bernie's" Jewish nose?
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Roland Burris And The Civil Rights Echo
I think Stephen Crowley's image on the NYT front page of Roland Burris outside the Capitol yesterday is just stunning. The association I had was to the scene outside Little Rock Central High in 1957.
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It’s Nice To See A Brown Girl Get Some Attention
In a cover story that speaks very meaningfully about black women and the dynamics of skin color, I thought it was quite contradictory that Newsweek's cover of Michelle Obama was black-and-white ... and Michelle is so (bathed in) light.
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Your Turn: House Negro
This is the key image being circulated from al Qaeda's Obama video circulated this week. It shows Al-Zawahiri centered between images of Obama wearing a yarmulke at the Western Wall and Malcolm X kneeling on a prayer rug in a mosque.
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Mario Tama: The Picture From Birmingham
Following up yesterday's image here of college students retracing the "Bloody Sunday" march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge, Mario forwarded this powerful photo from Birmingham.
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Campaign ’08 Final Weekend 3: Saturday’s Best Contrast of How Obama – McCain Shaped Up
George Allen versus Selma? You couldn't give me a more dramatic contrast of how Obama - McCain shaped up.
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Obama, Race, And Moving Beyond The Webb
Regard ing "Appalachian Problem," not sure John Cuneo illustration still applicable http://is.gd/4zwo.
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More Racist "Advice" From The McCain Campaign
Many of you have written about my take on "Advise," the latest McCain attack video.... In other words, consider the parallel between the smarmy way Obama was portrayed in Schmidt/McCain's Kindergarten/Sex Ed piece ten days ago and the portrayal of Frank Raines in this latest job. In their desperation...
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The Wolves Den: McCain, Schmidt Fully Playing The Race Card Now
What is horribly troubling, more than the decrepit tone of the McCain attacks in their viral video destruction campaign, is how Steve Schmidt -- beginning yesterday -- is openly playing the race card. In this latest salvo, in a piece titled ..........., Obama, by way of these consecutive frames,...
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The Role-Reversing, "Uppity" Atlantic Cover
Following the "TV with the sound off" test, check out this photoshopped cover of the new Atlantic while covering up the words. In this case, what the picture communicates is Obama (in reality, the "cool" one) as the warrior, while McCain (the actual "hot" one, who otherwise can't keep...
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How Schizo Is This, Putting Obama In Double-Bind?
My question is, does the NYT put Obama in a classic double bind by simultaneously illuminating his racial constraints with both blacks and whites?
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Celeb #1: Obama As Sexual Predator
A look at how the McCain campaign's anti-Obama "Celeb" video conveys racist allusions to sexual promiscuity and rape.
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McCain's Uppity Gym Rat
In my "ObamaPhobia" talk at NetrootsNation, I detailed a pattern of negative media coverage built around racist stereotypes as well as false rumors of Obama as a closet Muslim. My focus, of course, was on how this framing plays out at the visual level. In McCain's latest attack...
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Stereotypes From The White Corporate Media: The Black Man Gets His Hands On The Presidency
Watch out when the author himself warns of stereotyping when the traditional media discusses race. That's how Evan Thomas begins Newsweek's "open letter" to Barack Obama over how to handle that issue in the general election.
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The West Virginia Numbers
Looking at the newswire images of Clinton and Obama in West Virginia, it's hard not to take note of the racial breakdown.
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Your Turn: Vogue + LaBron (Kong?) + Gisele = Kaching
Some say the photo of LeBron James -- in a gorilla-like pose -- perpetuates racial stereotypes.
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The Mere Sight Of Wright
But whether there was some connection there or with Reverend Wright, or as the Clinton spokesperson said yesterday, "Bill Clinton met with, corresponded with and took pictures with literally tens of thousands of people,” facts are no longer the issue.
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Panic In Waukegan
While the immigration issue has devolved into little more than a political fanning of the ideological fires, this image speaks to the rising emotional fallout.
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