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, January 26, 2012

Bullying Part II -- Chicago edition

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I've been having an interesting discussion on the comment thread of a post I wrote about bullying with a commenter known as Artificer. ...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

The year of the black water dragon -- the 4709th Lunar New Year is here!

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Today is the first day of the 4709th lunar new year, the year of the dragon. Or more precisely, the year of the male water dragon. Every a...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Fear of a black president? Solution: the whitest man in America, Mitt Romney

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Today in The New York Times , Lee Siegel wrote an opinion piece about why Mitt Romney is the Republican front runner. In a nutshell, it...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

I'm Back! (really, I am...or I intend to be)

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Readers of Mixed Race America, I apologize, once again, for falling off the radar. Of course, I'm hoping you are still out there. And ...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Bullying is NOT OK, esp. when you target an individual based on race/ethnicity/sexualitiy/gender

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Recently a study came out that found that 54% of Asian American teens experienced bullying--this is compared to 31.3% of white teens and 38....
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Friday, November 4, 2011

Help out a fellow blogger -- calling all African American women!

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I'm posting this message from my dear blogging sister, Tami of What Tami Said -- although she specifically mentions African American wo...
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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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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