Carmen and I will be joined my Max Reddick, author of this week’s post, “I wish I could love all the girls in the world.” We’ll talk about mentoring young girls, whether love is enough to protect kids from race bias (hint: no) and the portrayal of race on Mad Men. Listen live or call [...]

Every Sunday at noon on Blog Talk Radio, Carmen Van Kerckhove (New Demographic), Latoya Peterson (Racialicious) and I get together with Anti-Racist Parent and Racialicious columnnists and contributors to talk about race and current events.
On today’s show, we’ll cover the controversy over Zahara Jolie-Pitt’s hair, the “Liar” book cover brouhaha, street lit and racial healing [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 81) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Kai discuss the racial divide in the blogosphere. White bloggers keep asking where the bloggers of color are, when bloggers of color in fact have established thriving [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 80) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Wendi discuss how the fashion and beauty industries continue to marginalize women of color.
Wendi Muse is a graduate of NYU where she had a concentration in legal [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 79) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
An all listener feedback episode in response to episode 77, in which Latoya Peterson and I discussed feminism and women of color. Thanks to everyone who called and wrote [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 78) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen interviews Stephen Duncombe, author of the new book Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy. From the book’s description:
What do Paris Hilton, Grand Theft Auto, Las [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 77) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Latoya discuss why women of color sometimes feel ambivalent about feminism.
Overly opinionated and a prime candidate for MAA (Media Addicts Anonymous), freelance writer and blogger Latoya Peterson [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 76) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Manish Viij discuss the way 7-Eleven is turning some of its stores into real-life Kwik-E Marts to promote the new Simpsons movie. In order to do this, [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 75) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen interviews Laura Martinez about multicultural marketing and the ways in which it can reinforce essentialist notions about racial or ethnic groups. This episode features the song “Something Different” [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 74) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen is joined by guest co-host Kai Chang in this episode. Kai is a technology entrepreneur and progressive activist living and working in southwestern Connecticut and New York City. [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 72) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Latoya discuss body image for women and how it correlates to race. This episode features the song “Feel The Change” by Baba & Yako, courtesy of Spectre [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 71) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Dumi discuss the “no homo” phenomenon, as well as BET’s recent episode of “Meet the Faith,” which focused on the state of black marriage.
Guest co-host L’Heureux Lewis, [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 70) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Sylvia discuss how race, gender and feminism are intersecting in some of the recent media coverage about Michelle Obama, wife of presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Guest co-host Sylvia [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 69) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
It’s another all listener feedback episode as we continue our semi-hiatus here at Addicted to Race:

Jason, a new listener, calls in with his thoughts on the show
Liam McGrath encourages [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 68) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
This is an all listener audio comment episode:

Frances shares her thoughts on the Don Imus controversy
Jeff weighs in on misogyny in hip hop
ME discusses the word “queer”
Tereza responds to [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 67) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Yolanda Carrington discuss the recent Don Imus controversy, and how those of us who do anti-racist work can get our voices heard in the mainstream media.
Guest co-host [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 66) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
This episode is all about you! It’s a special episode made up entirely of listener feedback. Here’s what we cover:
Reclaiming the n-word (episode 64)
Some thoughts on the word “queer”
White [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 63) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen is joined by guest co-host Hadji Williams in this episode. Hadji Williams has spent over 15 years in the advertising and marketing worlds at [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 62) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race. (Sorry this one was so late!)
Carmen is joined by guest co-host Kai Chang in this episode. Kai is a technology entrepreneur and progressive activist living and working in [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 60) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen is joined by guest co-host Jason Sperber. Jason Sperber is a former stay-at-home-dad living in California’s Central Valley. Currently a writer, blogger, and online community manager, he [...]