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 hapa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hapa. Show all posts
Thursday, January 31, 2008

How do I feel about "hapa"?

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Someone emailed me a few days ago, in response to the post I wrote about Hyphen Magazine , particularly about the link to the essay by Wei-M...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Magazine Plug: Hyphen's Hybrid Issue

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For those of you tuning in who wonder, "This blog is called Mixed Race America and while it talks a lot about race, I don't see a l...
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Monday, October 8, 2007

Little Buddha or Why Keanu Reeves should not be in this film

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I finally got around to seeing the Bernardo Bertolucci film Little Buddha . Bertolucci's big American claim to fame was The Last Empero...
Monday, July 16, 2007

Hapa Fever

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This weekend I've been reading a lot about hapa issues. Hapa, for those unfamiliar with this term, is the Hawaiian word for "half...
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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...
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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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