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.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

The politics of racial satire

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I know I'm about two weeks behind on talking about the now infamous New Yorker cover of the Obamas--the one that was meant to be satiri...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Racial satire: The Racial Draft

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Since I really AM planning to write about racial satire later in the week, I thought I'd provide an example of racial satire from someon...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The educator hat

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I, as regular readers of this blog know, am a golfer. And I found myself recently playing with 2 good friends and a 4th person who joined o...
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Monday, July 28, 2008

Margaret in the morning

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This is an excerpt from Margaret Cho's stand-up routine I'm the One That I Want (the best of the DVDs in my opinion). [Racial humor...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

T.G.I.F.: Free college, Berea college

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A few days ago The New York Times did a story on Berea College in Kentucky, a college founded in 1855 that does not charge tuition. That...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Hating the racism not the racist

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Jay Smooth at Ill Doctrine breaks down how to have a conversation with someone who makes a racist statement (tip of the hat to Racialicious...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Mixed race reading (and viewing)

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In a continuation of the reading recommendations I've been making this week for race/anti-racism & fun summer fiction , let me now ...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Reading about race

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Since yesterday's post was devoted to fun summer reading and fiction, I thought I'd focus today's post on some more meaty mater...
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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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