Stuff We Like

Movies:

Image via Wikipedia. Look you wanna look at Sanaa Lathan who just turned 40 and whose most recent film "Contagion" just came out (and is an acceptable albeit depressing date flick), or Bob Hoskins who just hit 70?

• Constellation
• Mona Lisa (with Bob Hoskins)
• Choose Me
• The Crying Game
• Bitter/Sweet
• Star Trek (the 2010/2011 reboot)
• Something New
• Haven
• Island in the Sun (back when Harry Belafonte was in his prime)
• West Side Story
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
• The Landlord
• La Bamba
• Jungle Fever (even though I personally don’t care for the movie’s lack of narrative flow)
• Mississippi Masala
• The Joy Luck Club
• Cafe Au Lait
• The Watermelon Woman
• Zebra Head
• Chutney Popcorn
• The Wedding Banquet
• Brother to Brother
• Fools Rush In
• Mr. and Mrs. Loving
• Chasing Shakespeare (http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/archives/danny_glover_co-starring_in_interracial_romance_flick_chasing_shakespeare/)

TV:

• Star Trek (you can’t beat Captain Kirk for his love of Uhuru, and the episode where he literally jumped on the green-skinned woman, and the Kirk/Spock bond)
• Chico and the Man
• Fame (corny, but a truly multicultural cast)
• Flash Forward (deadpan Fiennes has all the acting ability of a shovel, but what set the show off was the love affair between the Chinese FBI agent and his African American wife)

Websites and Blogs:

• “Let a Black Girl Show You the World” – http://kiratianatravels.com
• Sister Oneika’s travel blog – http://oneika-the-traveller.blogspot.com/
• Imported Chocolate travel blog -http://importedchocolate.wordpress.com/
• Black Girls Rock! – http://blackgirlsrockinc.com/live/
• http://www.blackgirltravel.com/pages/home.html
• http://blog.blackwomenineurope.com/
• http://blackwomenlivingwell.wordpress.com/
• http://www.beyondblackandwhite.com

People:

• Sanaa Lathan (only when she’s in interracial love stories like “Something New”)
• Lenny Kravitz (I mean, come on! Who doesn’t like Lenny?)
• Rae Dawn Chong (whatever happened to her, anyway?)
• Zoe Saldana (only when she’s in an actually good movie)
• Thandie Newton (only when she’s playing goofy women)
• Whoopi Goldberg (only when she’s in a movie)
• Naomi Campbell (only when she’s not talking)
• Alice Walker (forever)
• Tina Turner (under any conditions)
• Rita Dove (forever)
• Queen Latifah (only when she’s not in a commercial)
• The Williams Sisters, Venus and Serena (all the time)

Books:

• Love in Black and White: The Triumph of Love over Prejudice and Taboo, by Mark and Gail Mathabane -http://www.amazon.com/Love-Black-White-Triumph-Prejudice/dp/0060923717/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313953329&sr=1-2
• Kissing Outside the Lines: A True Story of Love and Race and Happily Ever After – http://www.amazon.com/Kissing-Outside-Lines-Story-Happily/dp/1580053904
• Love in Black and White: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Romance by William S. Cohen and Janet Langhart Cohen (Dec 28, 2006) – http://www.amazon.com/Love-Black-White-Religion-Romance/dp/0742558215/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313953329&sr=1-1
• Why Black Men Love White Women, by Rajen Persaud – http://www.amazon.com/Why-Black-Love-White-Women/dp/1416595422/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313953329&sr=1-4
• Interracial Marriages Between Black Women and White Men, by Cheryl Y. Judice – http://www.amazon.com/Interracial-Marriages-Between-Black-Women/dp/1604975776/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_3
• Dont’ Bring a White Boy: And Other Notions that Keep Black Women from Dating Out, by Karyn Langhorne Folan -http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Bring-Home-White-Boy/dp/B004JZWK8C/ref=pd_sim_b_2
• Sell Out by James W. Lewis (currently being read for review)
• Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0525952012/)

Blogs:

• http://multiracialkids.livejournal.com
• http://www.blackfemaleinterracialmarriage.com
• http://blackwomenwhitemen.wordpress.com/
• http://diaryofablackandwhitefamily.blogspot.com/
• http://blackandyellowambw.wordpress.com/
• http://blackwomanasianman.com/
• Southeast Wis Ingenerational-Interracial Community Connections  http://sewiicc.wordpress.com
• http://www.racialicious.com/
• http://thelinkbetween.wordpress.com/
  

Organizations:

• the National Multicultural Institute: http://www.nmci.org/
• “A national multi-ethnic organization that challenges society’s notions of race….” http://www.swirlinc.org/

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