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 30, 2011

We ARE a Mixed Race America

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There is an article in the New York Times Sunday edition entitled, " Race Remixed: Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Chose All...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

I'm glad I have a Chinese Mom

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There's been a lot of hubbub in the mainstream media and in the blogosphere about the Wall Street Journal article that came out about a ...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

T.G.I.F. -- a Mixed Race America

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By now we have all heard about what unfolded in Tucson, AZ--the horror of the mass shooting, the grief and mourning, private and public. An...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Changing words . . . charged words

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I'm an English professor who blogs, so it's not going to come as a surprise to read that I believe words matter A LOT. Words allow ...
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Saturday, January 1, 2011

New Year's Resolutions

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I know I've been an intermittent blogger since April 2010 when I received my cancer diagnosis. In that time I've gone through chemo...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

150 years of PTSD OR South Carolina's selective historical memory

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For regular readers, you know that I've *slowly* been doing a series where I answer questions from students at Private U. about being As...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

More questions about Asians in America -- who are we?

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Another set of questions (and my attempted answers) to the excellent questions posed by Private U. students at a workshop I ran a month ago ...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Another stab at answering questions about race & Asian Americans

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So I'm continuing to answer some questions from some great students I met while doing a workshop on race at Private U . last week. In m...
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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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