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.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

"Asian American experience is American experience"

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To close out APA Heritage/History Month , I want to give you the text of a speech by Jennifer Hyashida, which she made to City Hall in NYC. ...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Urban spaces

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I'm currently in NYC (I've been here since Wednesday with sporadic email/internet access--in case anyone is wondering, Blogger allow...
Friday, May 29, 2009

When to confront someone

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The other day I was remarking to Southern Man that most people were non-confrontational; most people do not like to tell someone, directly, ...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

R.I.P.: Him Mark Lai and Ronald Takaki

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Two giants in the field of Asian American studies...two men who helped to create Asian American studies, who researched, recorded, wrote, ta...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Pictures speak louder than words

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This photo speaks volumes. And it demonstrates the power of having an African American man in the Oval Office: Taken from the Official Whit...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Kip Fulbeck: speaking his truth to power

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Since this blog is called Mixed Race America and it's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month , then it's appropriate to recognize a s...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

T.G.I.F.: Helen Zia

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I should begin this post by disclosing that I know the subject of today's T.G.I.F. ( The Great Impossible Feat ). But this is not why I...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

2050 here we come!

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The Daily Show's Larry Wilmore on the upcoming white minority The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c White in America - The Ch...
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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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