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What a bunch of cool kids! Does this video make you want to enroll at Brigham Young University and do college all over again just so you can be friends with a bunch of fun ignorant racists? Race you to the registrar! More »
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The six sorority members from University of Southern Mississippi who thought it was a good idea to go to a costume party in blackface are being punished — and all things considered, the sorority's response is pretty good. More »
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Recently, a Japanese Vogue spread for which Crystal Renn had taped her temples garnered a lot of controversy when a behind-the-scenes video showed the tape (which didn't appear in the final spread thanks to the magic of Photoshop). Given fashion spreads that glorify or reference blackface have become common in recent years, you could forgive fashion writers for concluding that Vogue had employed eye tape to make Renn look "more Asian." Indeed, that was my initial assumption. I brought the shoot up on the phone with Crystal yesterday,* and she surprised me with her explanation of the eye tape, and why she — not the makeup artist or the fashion editor — had requested it that day. Renn had a lot to say about race, transformation, the many editorial choices that go into the production of the imagery fashion trades in. More »
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Although kiwis would be more likely to recognize the black figure in this ad as a golliwogg. Jones Soda serves up whole sheaf of ethnic and sexual stereotypes, including a turban'd man holding a detonator, for your soft-drinking pleasure. Revolutionary. More »
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• Yes, she'll be launching a branded perfume. "I have always loved how fragrance can shape a memory…the way certain scents remind you of events and people," says Swift, who's working with Elizabeth Arden. [People]

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The October issue of the fashion magazine Numéro features an editorial spread in which French model and Estée Lauder face Constance Jablonski poses in a brown Afro wig and dark makeup with this season's second-hottest accessory: a black baby. More »
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• To fête the 60th anniversary of the German photography magazine Stern Fotografie, Karl Lagerfeld shot six different covers featuring Claudia Schiffer. We could have done without the blackface one and the yellowface one. [SB]

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Some are alarmed that Rihanna's skin is painted black in her new video, "Rockstar 101," but frankly, it doesn't seem like anything to get worked up about. More »
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Today in fashionable racism, we have: An Australian magazine with a familiar-looking cover, and a Karl Lagerfeld-directed movie that features heavily made up European models in Chinese roles. How very The Mask Of Fu Manchu. More »
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According to StyleList, the first seven minutes of Tyra's talk show yesterday were devoted to discussing the "biracial" shoot on America's Next Top Model, in which some contestants had their skin painted with dark makeup. Tyra said: More »
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Here's a shot by Mario Sorrenti for the new V magazine. They can call it art, they can call it fashion. But they can't seem to call an actual black model, so let's call it bullshit. [Fashion Week Daily] More »
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In a super-spoiler, ET posted pictures of the remaining America's Next Top Model contestants from a photoshoot in Maui. The concept of the shoot involves making the ladies look biracial. Meaning: some of the models are in blackface. More »
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As controversy simmers over fashion photographer Steven Klein's choices to use white models made up in blackface in editorial spreads, even as black models continue to face discrimination, it has emerged that Madonna did a similarly-themed shoot with Klein. More »
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Maybe you saw, but Jezebel's own Jenna Sauers made her American cable television debut earlier this afternoon, where she talked about the modeling industry, French Vogue's "blackface" editorial, and charmed anchor Don Lemon. Kudos! (Update: here's the entire video.) [CNN] More »
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Seeking ever edgier territory, having dispensed with motherhood and cannibalism as sources of controversy, Vogue Paris took pictures of Dutch supermodel Lara Stone in blackface. Stop me if you've heard this one before! More »
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Today's Los Angeles Times has a story about Mena Suvari, who is starring in a new film, Stuck, by Stuart Gordon. She plays Brandi, a young woman who hits a homeless man with her car late one night, sending him right through the windshield. Brandi panics and drives home (with the guy still in her windshield) and tries to go on with her life. The plot is based on a true story — the woman's name was Chante Mallard, and she hit a homeless man in 2001 after she spent an evening smoking pot, drinking and taking Ecstasy with friends. Her boyfriend later ditched the body in a park. Mallard is now serving a 50-year jail sentence. Mallard, it should be noted, is black. Mena Suvari is not. But she does wear cornrows to play the role of Brandi. More »
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Say what you will about Glamour magazine's "Beauty Insider" blog, but you have to admit the thing's consistent. After all, its writers — three of the beauty department's writers/editors — manage to post 2 to 3 times a day despite their full time jobs sampling beauty products and going to open-bar events thrown by advertisers like Estee Lauder. But we're disappointed in Glamour's beauty girls today, specifically Contributing Editor Andrea Pomerantz Lustig. Andrea suggests that readers leave their over-plucked eyebrows alone for a few weeks, going on to explain that her own brows got a major beauty boost after she misplaced her tweezers and had to let her hairs grow back in. She also mentions that she took "before" and "after" photos of herself as evidence, photos that are, sadly, nowhere to be found on her post. Is Andrea feeling ugly today? Bloated? Shy? We ask only because Andrea seemed perfectly happy to post that kinda creepy, blackface-meets-beauty-editor portrait on March 27! More »
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