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, April 26, 2010

Should I do a postcolonial reading of Willy Wonka or can I just enjoy the songs?

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So I was channel surfing last night and came upon the vintage Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory -- the one with Gene Wilder being sligh...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Go green and Mess with Texas

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Today is Earth Day, and I do think that if Mixed Race America had a sponsoring color then perhaps it would be green, not because people who ...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Breaking the airplane bubble

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I've been doing a lot of flying lately. As I write this, I'm sitting in a hotel room in Connecticut, having given a university talk...
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Creepy Nike Ad

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So by now, many of you are familiar with a Nike ad that ran this past weekend to coincide with Tiger Woods's return to professional golf...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Too Much Information?

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Well, I'm back in my small Southern college town after spending time in the big city of Austin, TX. I say "big city" because ...
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Friday, April 9, 2010

With family

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As the title of my post says, I am with family. My Asian American academic family. As I write this, it is day 2 of the annual Association ...
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

We have always been a mixed race America

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Last week Thursday, on April 1, after seeing the kind of prank that Google was playing by changing their name to Topeka , I decided to pull ...
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Friday, April 2, 2010

Yesterday was April Fools Day

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Just so that there is no confusion, yesterday's post was in honor of April Fool's Day. I was assuming that regular readers of this...
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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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