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.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Beyond the racial pentagram

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I just returned from a conference, where I spoke on a panel about racial identities. I used a phrase, "racial pentagram" that som...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Furnishing your racist kitchen

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IMAGINARY SCENARIO: "Gee, I wish I knew of a design store that suited my desire to inappropriately stereotype different ethnic and raci...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Viva el dia de Cesar Chavez!

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Today I spoke with a close friend of mine in California: Her: "Are you getting Cesar Chavez day off?" Me: LOUD SUSTAINED LAUGHTE...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Book Plug: Covering by Kenji Yoshino

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I have just finished reading Covering: the Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino. Yoshino is a law professor at Yale Universi...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

I approve this post

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This was the infamous 3am ad that Hillary Clinton ran a few weeks ago: [If a phone is ringing at 3am in the White House, there is NO WAY it...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Calling on McCain to talk about race

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Calling all journalists in cyberspace: can you please start asking John McCain to talk about race? I know that there has been scrutiny plac...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

Expecting more from some "others"--is it fair?

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Recently I was at a conference and found myself talking to a well-known feminist scholar. She taught at Research U. in Rural Town USA but d...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Excuse me, America, can we talk about race now?

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Dear America, By now, like everyone else, I'm sure you have heard the speech Barack Obama delivered in Philadelphia ( here's a link ...
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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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