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.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

My slacker blog

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This is my last day in Boston, and I woke up early and thought I'd do a little email trolling. And I discovered "blogger search....
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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Urban living

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So I'm in Boston, my old stomping ground (I did my PhD at the citadel of tedium and woe) for a conference. And it's great being bac...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

The Danger of Purity

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Mary Douglas, or rather Dame Mary Douglas (also Dr. Mary Douglas) the renown British cultural anthropologist, died today. Her most famous w...
Monday, May 21, 2007

Experience for President

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Last night I was listening to a community radio station dj interview a local band member (both sounded about college aged or mid to late 20s...
Sunday, May 20, 2007

The Corruption of Power

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Are Americans obsessed with race? My friend, Bernie, left a comment along these lines, and I have also heard this from others, both America...
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Thursday, May 17, 2007

The melting of Greenland

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Yesterday I read an article about a university researcher who had literally heard part of Greenland's ice pack crack. The article goes ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Blogs--WHY????

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At a recent dinner party, my host asked me what blogs I read (I had just announced that I was beginning to blog myself), and I realized that...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Brown: the new black

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Had a great conversation with a good friend from Boston this morning--we talked a lot about identity, in all its permutations, from race to ...
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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.
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