Mixed Race America

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.

Showing posts with label 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2008. Show all posts
Sunday, June 7, 2009

How to deal with sticky questions

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[MRM Classic - from Tuesday, October 14, 2008 ] "Why do you want to know where I'm from?" Recently I was asked to give a talk ...
Saturday, June 6, 2009

Back when he was just Senator Obama . . .

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[MRM Classic - from June 12, 2008 -- I love that there was so much speculation about Obama's "racial" identity and what to ca...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Contested terms

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[MRM Classic -- from January 31, 2008 -- I especially like the comment thread from this post because the responses are all so thoughtful an...
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Friday, September 5, 2008

Post convention thoughts

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I teach in an English department. I know the power of narrative, how persuasive the right combination of words can be. And I study popular...
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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.
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