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, January 20, 2013

Ending Rape Culture

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About a month ago I received a comment on a blog post, " Are Jewish People a Race " that read: " get raped you stupid chink...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Happy New Year Mixed Race America!

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I had hoped to post on the first day of 2013, but posting a day late is better than not posting at all--and since I'm heading out of tow...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Tunnel Vision

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It has been embarrassing how long it has been since I last wrote a blog post.  Well over a month.  Almost two.  In between the time I last w...
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Friday, November 9, 2012

Cloud Atlas Review Part 3: Mixed race people save humanity

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Here's the last installment of the epic 3 part review on the film version of Cloud Atlas .  I really want to stress that my critiques an...
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

FOUR MORE YEARS!

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Despite what all my friends who follow Nate Silver's blog were saying, I was still nervous last night and couldn't settle down unti...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

November 6--Election Day--VOTE FOR OBAMA

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So it probably goes without saying that a blog called Mixed Race America is going to support President Barack Obama's re-election and wa...
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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...
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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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