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, August 29, 2008

Re: T.G.I.F.: Barack Obama & Politics

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I've been glued to C-SPAN and the commentaries on CNN and MSNBC all week. I've been blogging all week about the Democratic National...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Making History

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Almost every news outlet has noted the historic nature of this date, August 28, both for today and 45 years ago. [August 28, 1963 -- March o...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Symbols count

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I have just finished watching the roll call at the DNC and the choreography of Illinois "passing" when it was their turn to vote, ...

Hillary Clinton: party unifier

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I was nervous. I didn't know what to expect last night. I wanted to believe that she could pull it off, rally the troops, inspire her ...
Monday, August 25, 2008

I *heart* Michelle Obama

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I just finished listening to Michelle Obama deliver her speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO, and I teared up, especia...
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Obambiden: the Democratic ticket

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Barack Obama is in Denver this week to claim his right to represent the Democratic ticket (and damn it, did he earn it!) for his presidentia...
Friday, August 22, 2008

I wonder if my race radar is tuned too high

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I've been watching a fair amount of the summer Olympics over the last two weeks. And NBC, which is the official and seemingly sole netw...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

It's all fun and games until someone does the slant eye

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Yesterday I posted four photos of athletes from Spain and Argentina doing the tried and true racist gesture of taking their fingers and pul...
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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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