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.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Honoring the Legacy of Malcolm X

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64 years ago yesterday on February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated . Many people know of Malcolm X after reading about his life's ...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

R.I.P. Hisaye Yamamoto

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69 years ago today , President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 , which nullified the constitutional rights of every re...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Parody as a form of Flattery (or maybe just historical remembrance)

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This is compliments of my friend Crystal (who teaches African American & ethnic American lit), who posted this in honor of black history...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Calling all Asian Americans in all 50 States (we're talking to YOU Wyoming!)

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The Kartika Review has initiated The 500 Project --they are looking for 10 APIA (Asian Pacific Islander Americans) to write in about how th...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

I'm coming out! (well, sort've...)

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I don't want to mislead too many people by the title of this post--since I think the phrase "coming out" gives the general con...
Friday, February 4, 2011

Rabbit, Rabbit! Happy New Year!!!

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So yesterday marked the first day of the lunar new year, the year of the golden rabbit (as celebrated in Chinese culture) or the year of the...
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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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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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