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, November 4, 2012

Cloud Atlas Review Part 2: Yellowface & Orientalism

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So here's part 2 of my 3 part review of Cloud Atlas ( click here for part 1 ).  Today's topic: the film's use of yellowface and...
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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Cloud Atlas--the Film Review in 3 parts

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So I just saw the film Cloud Atlas , which is based on David Mitchell's novel of the same name --a novel that defies easy categorization...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

How much does mixed race matter?

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Recently I've been realizing that there are people whose race I've assumed to be one thing who are, in fact, something else.  People...
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Monday, October 8, 2012

Celebrate Indigenous People's Day

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In 1992 the city of Berkeley decided that the second Monday in October would be celebrated as Indigenous People's day, because in the U....
Monday, October 1, 2012

Racism: it's alive and well

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Living as we do in the 21st century, where in the U.S. inter-racial marriages, mixed race people, and our first non-white President are now ...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

The Argument against "English Only" in the U.S.

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If you haven't been living under a rock, and if you have friends who are Asian American, Korean American, or Korean (or just anyone payi...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Jeremy Lin + Hello Kitty = AWESOME!

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This video really speaks for itself -- as the post title says, there IS going to be a moment when Jeremy Lin and Hello Kitty meet up--and fo...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

If Mixed Race America was a political party it would be ...

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So as any regular readers of this blog will know, I am a proud Democrat who campaigned for Barack Obama in 2007.  In fact, my 3rd blog post ...
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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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