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 Asian American. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asian American. Show all posts
Saturday, April 12, 2008

At what point does the Asian immigrant become an Asian American?

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I recently finished Ha Jin's latest novel A Free Life (2007). This novel is Jin's first set completely in the U.S. discussing life...
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Monday, September 17, 2007

Asian American Chick Lit

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I'm in the middle of reading the second of Kim Wong Keltner's Asian American chick lit books, this one called Buddha Baby . The fir...
Sunday, August 19, 2007

Suffering from Racial Paranoia

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Somewhere in this blog I've discussed racial hypochondria, the term I came up with for the feeling when you are being "oversensitiv...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Is Tiger black?

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I was in the gym the other day reading a special issue of Sports Illustrated --one primed for the US Open (it was an old copy). And there w...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

The Hollywood Mirror

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Last week as I was de-toxing from my South Carolina sojourn, I took a break from the work schedule I put myself on and immersed myself in na...
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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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