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, October 31, 2010

The scariest thing about Halloween is the Tea Party

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In honor of Halloween I thought I'd share something that scares the hell out of me--the idea that members of the Tea Party will actually...
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Monday, October 18, 2010

Random observations related and unrelated to this blog

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It's past midnight and I'm up blogging because I'm a bit too amped up and anxious to sleep just yet. I'll be having bi-late...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

It's National Coming Out Day (but not for Christopher Columbus)

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Sorry for the radio silence from my end. Both due to fatigue from the end of chemo as well as preparation for upcoming surgery (I'll be...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Round #8 completed -- I'm Done with Chemo!

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Yesterday marked my 8th and last round of chemotherapy--an ordeal I dealt with over 16 weeks, beginning June 10. I still have the side effe...
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Friday, September 10, 2010

Responding to hate with charity and friendship

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Tomorrow will mark the 9th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the attempted attack on the White House. ...
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Sunday, September 5, 2010

Being aware of race

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Back on May 1, when I first announced that I had been diagnosed with breast cancer, I had thought that I would share stories about my obser...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Five years later...what have we learned?

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Unless you are living off the grid, by now everyone is aware that various news and media outlets have been reflecting on the state of the Gu...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

Martin Luther King Jr. is rolling in his grave

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Back in May, Southern Man and I were playing a game with another couple, very close friends of ours. We were playing a game that is hard to...
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Jennifer
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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