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, February 28, 2010

The relevance of African American Heritage Month

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Today in The New York Times I came across this article, " California Campus Sees Uneasy Race Relations ," which describes an esca...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Please consider joining the Bone Marrow Registry

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About a year and a half ago, I wrote about the need for more people, especially ethnic and racial minorities, to join the National Bone Mar...
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Going back to Cali

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Lets see how old the average reader of this blog is: do you recognize the title of this blog post? Of course, maybe old school hip hop is t...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

It's not paranoia if they're shooting at you

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By now almost everyone in the U.S. (and I imagine quite a few people around the world) have heard about the tragedy at the University of Ala...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Year of the Metal Tiger

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Yesterday was both Valentine's day and the first day of the Lunar New Year (or as we celebrated it in my home, Chinese New Year) and it ...
Friday, February 12, 2010

This is what inappropriate appopriation looks like

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The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, WA [ I mean BC! Woops! Brain fart--thanks for the catch Taavi --10:48pm] begins today. I confess, ...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

When is it a stereotype and when is it just you?

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Let me first begin by saying that I am not on the payroll of Doubleday and Colson Whitehead 's agent is not paying me to plug any of his...
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Monday, February 8, 2010

Adopting a culture and an identity: Scott Fujita

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In the different blogs that I periodically read, there are often debates about how appropriate it is to show your love and respect from a cu...
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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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