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.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Running in the Hood

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This morning I went running in my old neighborhood. First of all, no one in the California suburbs walks, so as I was walking home during m...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Back in the land of all things Asian

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I'm here in California--it's been about a year since I've been back. It occurs to me that writing that I'm here, there may ...
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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Sunday, October 28, 2007

The Politically Correct Halloween Costume

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Last night I had a party in which Halloween costumes were optional. You could either dress up, come as you are, or come as you are and wear...
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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...
Monday, October 22, 2007

My Uncle Frank

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The first person to really talk to me seriously about race--about the way race really is--the trickiness and stickiness of race, the things ...
Saturday, October 20, 2007

He's Here, He's Queer, He's a Wizard???

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To a packed house at Carnegie Hall, JK Rowling (author of the Harry Potter series) announced to everyone that Albus Dumbledore, the revered ...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Sublime

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One of my favorite pieces of music is Yo Yo Ma's recording of J.S. Bach's Prelude from Suite 1 in G Major. The opening strains make...
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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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