I'm flying home to CA today. I am a nervous flyer--I've been more nervous as I've gotten older, and being a newly avid watcher of Lost doesn't really help.
Of course, I'm flying Continental Airlines. And as irrational as it is, I'm reassured. Because there can't possibly be two major accidents with the same carrier in a week, can there? (I think statistically speaking there is no basis in this belief, but I'm sticking to it).
Anyway, I'm not sure how much blogging I'll be doing while on vacation with my family, so I just want to say
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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Thoughts, musings, and observations about race in America, particularly the mixing of race--in all the ways you can imagine: people of various races interacting, people of various races not wanting to mix, issues of purity, hybridity, multiplicity, heterogeneity, and any other way you can describe the blending, melding, melting, tossing, turning, churning of race relations in the United States.
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1) Please leave a comment! I really am interested in hearing what others have to say. You cannot leave anonymous comments (which means you do have to have a gmail account), and you must comply with rule #2, but aside from these things, I really want to hear from YOU.
2) Please be respectful in your comments. I reserve the right to moderate all comments, which means deleting comments I believe are disrespectful, rude, or which generally devolve into ad-hominem attacks. I don't mean that people should not engage with what I'm writing (or others have written) and I'm not looking to "preach to the choir." But I also believe that the best way to be heard is through respectful discourse--at best, we can just agree to disagree.
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Some Links to Look At
Blogs I Like
- About Race
- American Studier
- Amy and Shaun Tumblr
- Angry Asian Man
- Citizen of Somewhere Else
- Fizzle
- Gilesbot 9000
- John Raible Online (Transracial Adoption Support)
- Land of the Not So Calm
- Lesboprof
- Love Isn't Enough (formerly Anti-Racist Parent)
- Mixed American Life
- Native Appropriations
- Race Files
- Racialicious
- Reassigned Time
- Resist Racism
- Tenured Radical
- The Globe is a Ball (Sports & Social Justice)
- This Week in Blackness
- What Tami Said
MRA posts about mixed-race issues (key selections)
- Mixed race reading (and viewing)
- Doing the right thing: a history of California's marriage laws
- How do I feel about "hapa"?
- Gee, you don't look "Asian"...
- Magazine Plug: Hyphen's Hybrid Issue
- A Mixed Race Medley--Multiple Plugs
- Beyond the Racial Pentagram
- Rest in Peace Mildred Loving
- Mixed Race America--how does it begin?
- Monday's Mixed-race Musings
- Resource Plug: Mixed Heritage Center
- Multiracial Jamaica?
- Barack Obama is our first (fill-in-the-blank)
- Link Love for Anti-Racist & Multiracial Families
MRA posts about anti-racist activism and education (key selections)
- Allies
- Can I be racist?
- Do we have to choose between racism and sexism?
- Individual Bigotry & Institutional Racism
- The White Spokesperson
- Living the Anti-Racist Praxis
- Getting rid of race
- Reverse Racism!
- Defining Racism
- What, exactly, IS "race" (or is it just race)?
- Over-sensitive & In-sensitive about Race
- Excuse me, America, can we talk about race now?
- Reading about race
MRA posts about Asian American issues (key selections)
- At what point does the Asian immigrant become an Asian American?
- Do I Need to Travel to China?
- Asian American identity
- I'm Proud to be a Chinese American!
- How do I know I'm Asian American?
- Repeating History
- The last word on APA heritage: Beau Sia
- From Dragonlady to White Castle: Asian Americans in Film
- The many faces of "Orientalism"
- Spotlight on Yuri Kochiyama--Asian American activist
- A PSA: Consider joining the bone marrow registry
- Debunking the model minority myth
Who I Am
- Jennifer
- A 40-something professor of contemporary American literature and Asian American literature interested in issues of social justice and specifically how to create spaces to talk comfortably (and sometimes uncomfortably) about race.
Jennifer's Current Book Recommendations
- A Visit from the Goon Squad -- Jennifer Egan
- Partly Colored: Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South -- Leslie Bow
- Bitter in the Mouth -- Monique Truong
- Run -- Ann Patchett
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle -- David Wroblewski
- War Dances -- Sherman Alexie
- The Good Thief -- Hannah Tinti
- One! Hundred! Demons! -- Lynda Barry
- A Mercy -- Toni Morrison
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog -- Muriel Barbery
- Wrack and Ruin -- Don Lee
- The Plague of Doves -- Louise Erdrich
- The Yiddish Policeman's Union -- Michael Chabon
- Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, Exoticism in Modern America -- Henry Yu
- Behold the Many -- Lois-Ann Yamanaka
- A Long Stay in a Distant Land -- Chieh Chieng
- Disoriented -- Robert Chang
- Postcolonial Melancholia -- Paul Gilroy
- Free Food for Millionaires -- Min Jin Lee
- American Inquisition -- Eric Muller
- Stealing Buddha's Dinner -- Bich Minh Nguyen
- A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeline L'Engel
- History of Love -- Nicole Krauss
- Moo -- Jane Smiley
- The God of Small Things -- Arundhati Roy
- Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s -- Michael Howard and Omi Winant
- Paradise -- Toni Morrison
- The Love Wife -- Gish Jen
- East of Eden -- John Steinbeck
- Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique -- Kandice Chuh
- Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics -- Lisa Lowe
- My Year of Meats -- Ruth Ozeki
- Monkey Hunting -- Cristina Garcia
- Aloft -- Chang-rae Lee
- Selections from Gramsci's Prison Notebook -- Antonio Gramsci
- Dreams from My Father -- Barack Obama
1 comment:
We seriously have the nuttiest parallels in real life, sometimes. I would have been flying back to the Bay yesterday, as well - if I hadn't been snowed in. Trying to make it out there today. Enjoy the Bay - maybe we'll see each other there (and walk right by without a word because we don't know what each other look like, and there are enough Asians and mixed folks in the Bay that we won't even think about it).
Ahhhh . . . a place with a lot of Asians and mixed folks. Sigh.
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