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, June 3, 2008

The bus incident

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[Warning--long post follows] On Friday, May 23, I got on the #21 Hayes bus leaving downtown SF to head to Golden Gate Park so that I could s...
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Monday, June 2, 2008

Conflicts on public transportation

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It's been about a week since I returned from California, and in my first post back , I alluded to a harrowing incident that really chall...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

The authenticity trap

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One of the things I loved about being in San Francisco is the amount of Asian food I got to consume. Let me amend that: authentic Asian fo...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Back at home in the South

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I'm back--a bit jet lagged, especially after taking a red-eye flight. But the title of my post is true and accurate: I am back at home...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Going Home

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I'm flying home today. Let me be more specific: I'm attending a conference in San Francisco and extending my stay a few days becaus...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Not too late to do the right thing

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On Sunday, May 18, 2008, about 200 Japanese American UW students, who were forced to leave the university and face incarceration during WWII...
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Monday, May 19, 2008

What do YOU excel in?

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I'm doing home improvements this week, which includes some semi-major painting and home repair projects. Like re-porcelain-ing (is that...
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Saturday, May 17, 2008

The last word on APA heritage: Beau Sia

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So maybe he isn't the last word for APA heritage month, but I'm concluding this week-long series on Asian Pacific American history/h...
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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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