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.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Making a Difference--Part I

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Two weeks ago, at my uncle's memorial service, I got up to speak towards the end of the evening--to be one of the "family voices...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

The American Dream

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For the last few days I've been engrossed in a novel by Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires (Warner Books, 2007). The novel isn...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Forgetting Class

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Last night I had my monthly Paul Gilroy reading group and the text under discussion was Against Race . There are some intriguing ideas in t...
Monday, November 12, 2007

Dressing White

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This weekend I went to a party and was describing my research on passing to a party guest I had never met before. He told me he knew someon...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Individual Bigotry & Institutional Racism

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The first time I remember hearing a formal definition for racism was in my freshman year black studies class, which was an introduction to r...
Thursday, November 8, 2007

Book Plug: AMERICAN INQUISITION

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I know I said the next post would be about the difference between individual bigotry and institutional racism, but I just finished Eric Mull...
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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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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