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, June 26, 2012

The legacy of Vincent Chin and what it means to be Asian American

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This past Saturday, June 23, 2012, marked the 30th anniversary of Vincent Chin's death.  For those of you who aren't familiar with w...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

Living up to others' expectations

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Today Rodney King passed away.  He was found dead in his swimming pool in southern California.  He was 47 years old.  For those of you who ...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Defending the South

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I'm currently enjoying the wonderfully sunny beauty of San Diego, CA.  I've been in California for the last 2 and  1/2 weeks, first ...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

It's about human rights -- the right to love whomever you choose

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This morning the interview that President Barack Obama gave with Good Morning American anchor, Robin Roberts -- the one in which he came out...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Authentically Asian American?

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Happy May Day! It's awfully embarrassing to realize that it's been A FULL MONTH since I last wrote a post (sigh). Do I have any re...
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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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Jennifer
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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