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 racial profiling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racial profiling. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Race--always more complicated than you think it is

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[Warning: Another long and rambling post--there's just something about all these racial incidents happening that loosens the fingers on ...
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Judgment Part II

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I want to make a clarification from the previous post on "Judgment." A friend wrote me privately and expressed dismay at what he ...
Monday, November 5, 2007

Judgment

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I've been thinking a lot about judgment, primarily about being judgmental and judging others. It's easy to be judgmental because it...
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Monday, October 29, 2007

Airport Anxiety

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I'm leaving today for California and since I'll be flying I'm bound to experience a fair amount of anxiety. I'm not *exactl...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Repeating History

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There is something, for me, about the stories of the Japanese American Internment that makes me get choked up. Or angry. Or both. And I fe...
Tuesday, September 4, 2007

We Will Not Be Silent

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About a year ago, an Arab American architect, Raed Jarrar, was detained by Jet Blue and the TSA at JFK Airport because he was wearing a tee-...
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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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