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.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Today is spirit day--support LGBT youth

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Yesterday I got an email letter from Brian Pines of the "It Gets Better" Project. I know there has been some controversy around ...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Mixed race in America -- New York Times edition

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Over the year, the New York Times seems to be doing more pieces on multiracial Americans. I'm not sure why this focus--or perhaps it...
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Friday, October 7, 2011

R.I.P. to the world's most famous mixed-race adoptee -- Steve Jobs

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As most everyone around the world knows by now, Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56, succumbing to his long-time battle with pancreatic...
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

An open letter to the UC Berkley College Republicans and their misuse of the concept of racism

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An Open Letter to the UC Berkley College Republicans, I just read an article in the on-line version of the San Francisco Chronicle that you...
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Monday, September 19, 2011

Putting my money where my mouth (or ethics) is

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So there's this weird American idiom, "Putting my money where my mouth is"--and I'm not even sure how apropos it is for th...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Are Jewish people a race?

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The question in this blog's title was one posed to me by one of my student's after class recently. Actually, the question was more ...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Yes, I'm still here!

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Hello readers of Mixed Race America--if there are any of you left. I realized, today, that it had been about a month and a half since I las...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

T.G.I.F.: Maurice Lim Miller & Family Independence Initiative

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This morning I read an article in the New York Times about a unique program, the Family Independence Initiative , which is, in their own w...
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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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