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...Aktionsbüro Süddeutschland (Society of Comrades Action Bureau, Southern Germany). "It's no coincidence that they are east Germans," says Hajo Funke, an expert on right-wing extremism at Berlin's Free University. "Ten years of experiencing the downside of German unification has created a racist youth subculture in the east." Norbert Klein is the owner of Friendship, a folksy restaurant in a working-class Munich neighborhood, where Wiese and his gang used to provide security for Direct Democracy, a radical right-wing coalition that held meetings in a back room. "Sometimes they'd get a hundred...
...factory," she says. True enough, and in a world that can be as insular as fashion, such a perspective is important to maintain. But it's the sort of obstacle that has the potential to keep images of black beauty out of view. The motive may not necessarily be racist: some hairdressers who work the runway shows say they are reluctant to style black hair because they have little experience doing so and don't want to do a bad job. What seems surprising, however, is that the industry has yet to solve the problem. Michael Ross says a black...
...people would be surprised to learn that models are judged by a criterion as superficial as the color of their skin, and it's debatable whether fashion is significantly more racist than other industries; the images it projects, however, are inarguably more pervasive. "When you think back on an era," says Iman, "it's the pictures, not the words, that you remember, which is one reason fashion and beauty should be put under a microscope...
...addicted to Internet porn, and a pair of sexualized Ernie and Bert characters, Nicky and Rod, who room together but don't sleep together, much to Rod's dismay. On shabby, outer-borough Avenue Q, they sing jaunty little songs about racism (Everyone's a Little Bit Racist) and depression (There Is Life Outside Your Apartment) while falling in love, getting evicted and coming...
...French court of inciting racial hatred after he called Islam "the most stupid religion." (Does it help to know that his mother left him in childhood for an Arab and converted to Islam?) So is he a new paradigm of loutish lucidity, a potty-mouthed Camus? Or just a racist drunk? Platform (Knopf; 259 pages), his third novel, is a heartfelt defense of sexual tourism by Westerners among the nubile, pliant and--oh, yes--penniless peoples of the Third World. The book is classic, gamy Houellebecq: witty, indigestible, willfully repellent and fiercely enjoyable...