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, March 15, 2011

Why Asian American studies matters

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I've been in NYC for the last few days (it was spring break last week at Southern U) so I didn't get to see this video until today--...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The post about adoption

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As regular readers of this blog know, recently I've been writing about more personal (maybe intimate or private is the more accurate wor...
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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Meet the Happiest Man in the U.S.: Alvin Wong

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Gallup (yep, the pollster/survey people) decided that they wanted to figure out what makes Americans happy and, the New York Times asked Ga...
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Monday, February 28, 2011

It still matters if you're black (or white)

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Despite what Michael Jackson may have sung about once-upon-a-time , I believe it DOES matter if you're black or white. Meaning, it matt...
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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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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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