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.

Monday, August 31, 2009

A lot of links this week

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So just as a heads up for everyone, the university semester has begun, and so I may not get around to posting a lot this week but I will try...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

R.I.P.: Senator Ted Kennedy

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Ted Kennedy is being memorialized and buried today. He has had a troubled yet remarkable life. He seems to have been a man of contradictio...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

Stop fussing with the Obama family!

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Ok, I know that I had all but drunk the kool-aid with the Obama campaign a year ago. It will come as no surprise that I was a HUGE Obama su...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Teaching not preaching

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It's that time of year -- you can see it in the panic stricken eyes of children trying to squeeze the last moments of pleasure in the wa...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Celebrating 89 years of voting

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89 years ago, on August 26, 1929 the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote was finally passed. So in honor of this day let me ...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Re: U of Texas researcher needs help!

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I received the following email message from Chelsea McPeek, a research assistant for Dr. Eun-Ok Im who is at University of Texas at Austin...
Monday, August 24, 2009

I want my America BACK!

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When people say that they want "My America" back, I always wonder what they mean? I should start out by saying that this post was...
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Friday, August 21, 2009

Barney Frank says it best

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Barney Frank responds to a woman who asks him why he is supporting a "Nazi" policy: Enough said. Thanks for playing lady--and tak...
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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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