Obama’s school visit this week is very reminiscent of a program we have in Chicago, called the Black Star Project–the project is all about black male adults serving as role models for black children. In fact, that’s Secrectary of Education Arne Duncan in the photo above in 2008 in Chicago, participating in the Million Father…
DetailsTwo articles posted this week by artist friends on Facebook (“Six Fonts that Piss People Off” written by Cliff Kuang and posted by Tim Frick, Owner and Creative Director of Mightybytes* and “8 Ways to Drive a Graphic Designer Mad” by Ghislain Roy, posted by graphic designer Tom Deja of Bossman Graphics) struck me as…
DetailsLook at this incredible gem I found on alllooksame.com. Having weathered trying to denounce a few over the years in real life, not sure how I feel about his enthusiasm for “crazy Jewish conspiracy theories as entertainment,” but the ‘scientific evidence’ in the clip does go beyond the “big nose on ancient mask must be…
DetailsIn the post “Beyond White Guilt: The Role of Allies in the Struggle for Racial Equality,” at This Week in Race blog, the authors point out sources of “latent racism, not of any conscious bigotry,” using the lesson of Rosa Parks. “As another example, school children who were educated in the second half of…
DetailsHhmmm, so maybe you’re not paranoid to feel vulnerable or anxious when interacting in another culture! And while you don’t want to be overly self-conscious, it is sometimes good to get a ‘double check’ if you are using a phrase book to get around in another country. Case in point: my parent’s first trip to…
DetailsSmart Asian Girl…check! Black Basketball Player…check! Hispanic slut in mini-skirt and heels…check! White/blonde cheerleader…check! I was talking to someone earlier this week about the intersection of anthropology and marketing…how to market to people of different backgrounds without perpetuating stereotypes. “How do you do that?” he asked. While marketing should always start with your objective in…
DetailsI was reading a bedtime story to my 8 year old son Dillon and his 8 year old cousin Noah last night. It was a benign story, geared to a younger audience, but the boys had asked me to read it as a simple ploy to stay up later. We got to the page where…
DetailsHere are two resources that go well beyond the two-dimensional, US construct of diversity: Global Voices–which “aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online,” and the book “A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection,” edited by Stacy Bierlein (the book I picked up at a recent event at ThinkArt Salon, an…
DetailsIn evaluating multicultural marketing, it’s good to look at who’s doing what (is the black kid the basketball player? The older adult technologically illiterate? The Latina dancing?), or to keep an eye on ‘agency’ (who has the power–is one group making fun of another, is the group represented the way it would represent…
DetailsI seem to be on a “Latino” theme today, with this article by Elianne Ramos on the ‘new’ “Wise Latina” (new as in it doesn’t exist until marketing acknowledges or coins a term for it…tell that to Sonia Sotomayor and Elianne’s grandma Mama Clara) as well as this Call for Artists from the Belas-Artes gallery in…
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