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, April 1, 2012

Trayvon Martin--what can we do?

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By now everyone (and I mean this in a global sense) or most everyone has heard the details about Trayvon Martin 's death/murder/tragic k...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The Authenticity Trap

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Last week I did a workshop at the ECAASU (East Coast Asian American Student Union--an undergraduate collective of East Coast students who a...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

More Afro-Asian connections in sports and US culture

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Mark Anthony Neal has to be one of the smartest people I know who thinks about, writes about and talks about issues of race, especially on ...
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Monday, February 20, 2012

The Invisibility (or Linvisibility) of Asian Americans

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My friend and colleague Tim Yu has a piece on CNN's Opinion Page, " Will Jeremy Lin's Success End Stereotypes? " It is a ...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Black History Month & the 70th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066 -- why both matter, together

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It is Black History month, a time when we (as a nation) remember the significant contributions to American history, culture, and society of ...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Why I love Michelle Obama

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There's a lot of reasons to love Michelle Obama, but one of the best ones that I can think of is that she really understands why she is ...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

I've caught the fever and it's called LINSANITY

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I've been wanting to write, for over a week, about the phenomenon we now refer to as "Linsanity" -- the rise of NY Knicks poin...
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Monday, February 6, 2012

Peter Hoekstra--PLEASE take an Asian American history class!

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A student in my Asian American in the South class just sent me a link to a New York Times article that discusses an ad that ran in Michigan...
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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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