There were a lot of submissions last week, so I tried to grab about half of them, and finish off my backlog from two weeks ago.  The half I picked from last week included blogs from voices we don't normally see around here, even in the diversity series.  Don't worry, next week's roundup will include the remaining ten blogs.  In alphabetical order, we have:

• Catfish and Grits, as you might guess, is based in the Deep South - Columbus, GA to be exact.  Recent posts have been smattered across a variety of topics: voting rights, fat content in chocolate, the Plame case, and Iraq book deals (Shoshana Johnson's and George Tenet's).  The content is a bit sparse, unfortunately, with posts coming in at the rate of once a month or so.  Intriguingly, author sephis1977 has a number of projects up his sleeve: a primer on voter viability loss, the creation of a think tank, and the establishment of a news aggregator (similar in some ways to Salon or the Huffington Post) for African Americans.  Hopefully he'll be blogging about some of these projects on his blog soon.  

• Dos Centavos, a blog dedicated to "redefining chicano socio-political discourse", is based in Houston, TJ (Tejas, get it?).  The blogger is a proud supporter of Gov. Richardson, and is very active in Houston politics - currently there are four candidate badges gracing the right sidebar (not including Richardson's).  There's plenty of political commentary, with recent posts heavily emphasizing immigration reform and the presidential race.  There's also a good deal of discussion of local Houston politics; DC is a conspicuously movement- and action-oriented blog.  Especially if you're living in Houston, check out this blog.

• The Drum Major Institute Blog is a blog which hardly needs introduction here.  Over the last year or so the DMI has made a name for itself as a think tank focusing on middle-class bread-and-butter issues.  What some people may not realize is that the DMI Blog hosts a diverse set of front page guests, with an intentional focus on women and minorities.  That diversity pays off in a continuous stream of excellent front page articles on immigration, pay gap legislation, the prison industry, banking services for the poor, and on and on.

• eteraz.org: States of Islam, run by Ali Eteraz, is a blog I've been meaning to follow for a while.  In addition to being named for its founder, eteraz means "protest" in Farsi and Arabic, and "heartfelt disagreement" in Urdu.  With a name like that, how can you not start a blog?  Front pagers Eteraz, Saliha Shah and Lawrence focus on issues facing the Muslim world: social justice and reform within the Muslim community, not, as a recent front page post made clear, theological issues within Islam.  (Similar warnings have popped up at Talk 2 Action and Street Prophets in the last year or so, if memory serves me right.)  The blog is run on a Scoop platform, so user diaries abound, and user interaction is encouraged.  The focus is unmistakably international, with posts considering an ages-old question of theocracy vs. security in the Sudan, the lives of British Muslims, censorship in Pakistan.  There's an impressive intellectual streak as well, including a couple of posts about Salman Rushdie and a super-abstract, and super-long series called "The Struggle".  The user posts more or less track similar strains of thought.  If you're looking to learn about some of the great questions facing the world's second-largest religion, you could do a lot worse than hopping over to this blog.

• NewMexiKen is an amusing politicl blog written by a former US Archives staffperson now living in Albuquerque.  The site has a decidedly historical bent, as you might expect, including dailiy "On this day in history" features.  There's a fair amount of cultural commentary - including the iPhone, Paris, Ratatouille (the movie), Harry Potter, and so on.  There's comparatively little, and fairly brief, political commentary.  The writer has a great voice and a charming personality, and the commentary is very thoughtful.

• Political Teen Tidbits, written by frecklescassie (aka Snarkcassandra on FireDogLake) is "a liberal blog written by a teen with input from teens".  The content spans from silly (a photoshopped graphic of Bush with a pentagram on his forehead, a list of anti-Bush bumper stickers) to serious (commentary on news of a new research project in wind power), with a decided emphasis on national issues (Guantanamo Bay, corporate crime, money in elections, etc.)  Frecklescassie appears to be doing more than just commenting on news stories: she's also empowering other teens, regularly posting about issues affecting teens, and encouraging other teens to interact with her site via Facebook.  This kind of teen activism is what makes me optimistic for our future.

• RaceWire, "the national newsmagazine on race and politics", is written by an impressive group of 10 front-pagers, and a gaggle of guest contributors.  All those contributors make for a steady stream of fascinating content.  A recent sampling included a look at a class-based comparison of MySpace and Facebook; use of hard drugs among whites; unwillingness to deal with the racial aspect of the health care crisis in Sicko; and a pretty good dose of content about immigration reform.  A couple of months ago, Colorlines had an interesting piece on The Segregated Blogosphere, which is also very much worth reading.

• Sepia Mutiny, named for the Sepoy Mutiny, a massive Indian uprising against British colonial rule in 1857.  The front-pagers, or "mutineers", include Abhi, Amardeep, Anna, Ennis, and Siddhartha (with admins Chaitan, Neha, Kunjan and Paul).  The blog started in 2004, and has had a steady stream of content and visitors since (4500 posts and 8 million visitors, according to a recent post).  This is a general-discussion blog written from a South Asian perspective, not an expressly political one.  That said, political and pseudo-political issues certainly wind up on the front page frequently; recent stories include diverse chaplaincies in colleges and the military, desegregation (as it applied to an Indian student in NYC), and South Asian affinity groups in the presidential primary.  The writing tone is somewhere between hip and snarky, and thoroughly amusing.  Check out the FAQ.

• Too Sense is a DC-based blog which focuses on "race, politics and hip hop".  The focus is interesting, actually: this might be the first blog I've read in this series which focuses specifically on these issues.  Lately the topics have tended toward the presidential race, but there's also some very interesting race-in-media critique, and a bit about hip hop as well.  Finally, there's a smattering of activism, in particular with regards to the nomination of Hans von Spakovsky to the FEC (ColorOfChange has also called for blocking von Spakovsky's nomination; Too Sense calls him a "career minority vote suppression operative.)  There's plenty of interesting commentary, and it's updated frequently by a band of three excellent bloggers.  Check it out.