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, November 30, 2009

Give it up for Alexander Hamilton

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Finally, that small intersection of spoken word fans and Colonial American history buffs can come together and give it up for Lin-Manuel Mir...
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Friday, November 27, 2009

T.G.I.F.: I pledge to speak truth to power--Will Philips

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On Monday October 5, 2009 10-year old Will Phillips , a resident of Washington County, Arkansas and a student in the West Fork School distri...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Random Thanksgiving Day thoughts

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[For more cohesive thoughts about Thanksgiving, see some former posts of mine here and here ] 8:00am Turn on the television in preparation...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Passing as Chinese

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Today Southern Man and I ate at a new Chinese restaurant we recently discovered. It is now our new favorite Chinese restaurant in the area ...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Education--a right and a responsibility

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Let me first say that I am entirely biased. I am a university professor. I have spent A LOT of time in classrooms, as a student and now as...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Obama haters are white (and other observations that you may have been able to guess yourselves)

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This just in from The Guardian/UK: " Hate Obama? You may not be racist but you will be white. " The author, Michael Tomasky, doe...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

Speaking as an "Other"

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I'm teaching Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deveare Smith this week. Last night I re-watched the film with my class and was once ...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Growing Up on Sesame Street

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If you have been following the changing Google characters this past week you know that something has been coming. Big Bird. Elmo. The Coo...
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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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