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, September 30, 2008

In defense of elitism

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I know that a few of you may be confused at the overtly political nature of this blog--that you clicked here or you come here thinking you...
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Monday, September 29, 2008

A Movie that will hopefully never be made...

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Head of Skate: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor . [Honestly, I'm not trying to pick on Sarah Palin--this was j...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

West Wing -- my fantasy alternate reality

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I was (and still am) a HUGE West Wing fan. I own the entire series on DVD and used it as a fantasy media narcotic to cope with the Bush ad...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Why do people hate Sarah Palin?

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OK, maybe this title needs some more nuance. Why do liberal Democrats hate Sarah Palin? And is hate too strong a word? Should I qualify e...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

The message vs. the messenger

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Last week Wednesday I asked an unanswerable question , namely why we don't call more things "racist" (aside from people--I...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Live from New York...

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SNL's Sarah Palin-Hillary Clinton skit: [for some reason, it keeps showing triple clips--guess NBC wants to triple their promo]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Wednesday morning unanswerable question

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So I've got a question for the blogosphere: Why don't we call more things instances of racism? Want more? This is what I mean. Some...
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Monday, September 15, 2008

Matt Damon on Sarah Palin

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I've really resisted giving a laundry list or rant about all the reasons I think that Sarah Palin is a bad V.P. pick and would be an eve...
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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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