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, January 31, 2010

Southern Snow

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It's the last day of the first month of the new year (and new decade)--is that simple enough for you? It's also a frozen wonderland...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Taking "Save the Date" cards to the next level

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My brother "C" just sent me a link to Angry Asian Man's blog that had this youtube clip of Jeff and Erin's wedding. It r...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Visuals matter: the faces of power in America

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I just finished watching the State of the Union address (and the Republican rebuttal) and am half-listening to the spin doctors on CNN disse...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Am I a Southerner?

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Recently I was filling out an application that asked me how long I've been with my current employer. Since coming to work at Southern U...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

If we're all living in a postracial world, Colson Whitehead must be its ruler

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I know I've waxed rhapsodic about Colson Whitehead's satirical skills in the past . I just finished re-reading Apex Hides the Hurt ...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

The art of the apology--giving and receiving

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Since I wrote about a racial gaffe I made yesterday, I've been thinking about apologies. In the news, lately, there has been the high ...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Apologizing for the racial gaffe

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This semester I'm teaching a grad seminar on race and cultural studies in contemporary America, and one of the things I emphasized was t...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Today is Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. He was born on January 15, 1929. If he were alive today, he'd be 81 years old. On Mond...
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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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