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Halloween 2011: A Katniss, a Carving and a Buck-Toothed Coolie
I love Halloween. If Halloween parties replaced Jello shaped like a brain with turkey and mashed potatoes, Halloween might jump above Christmas and Easter Just kidding – all of my Christian fundy...
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Three Thoughts on Becoming Post-racial
I have written plenty on [race] in general and [Martin Luther King Jr.'s] birthday in particular, but on this, the 2012 remembrance of the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let me just...
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Guest Blogger: Byron Wade – Five Books Everyone Should Read if You Want to...
As part of my commitment to a couple of book projects, this spring I am taking a personal blogging hiatus and have invited some folks to blog in my stead. It is my intention help share some new voices...
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Remembering Vincent Chin: Pete Hoekstra and Being Asian in America
[Photo from the film "Vincent Who?"] UPDATE: Asian Pacific Americans for Progress is compiling a list of responses to the ad. [RESPONSES] On the night of June 19, 1982 in Detroit, MI, after a...
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Getting Up to Speed on that Asian B-Baller Guy, Jeremy Lin
[Photo by nikk_la] While “Linsanity” might not rise to the level of an international, “Have you been living under a rock?” story, it does seems as thoughtrecently avoiding some mention of Jeremy Lin...
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Three Elements of Constructive Conversations on Race, Class, Gender,...
Trayvon Martin Over the past few years, I have blogged on many issues of justice in the United States mostly around racism, public education and lgbtq struggles. While I have been called the...
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Mark Koenig – All our Sons, All our Daughters
This spring I am taking a personal blogging hiatus and have invited some folks to blog in my stead. It is my intention help share some new voices and perspectives with a larger audience and keep my...
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Metta World Peace and Racism in the NBA
Colorlines recently posted interview by Jamilah King as he sat down with David Leonard, author of After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness. Leonard, professor of Ethnic Studies at Washington...
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Kickstarting My Book on Race
After going through the pre-requisite angst over writing a book such as this, I’m diving in. And while I have no delusions of grandeur about the scope and impact of this book, I do know that it will...
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Ryan Kemp-Pappan to Design Cover Art
I am so thrilled that my friend and colleague Ryan Kemp-Pappan has agreed to design the cover for my new book on race. I have known Ryan for a while now and his passion for building community and...
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Deadly Vipers, Screaming Savages, Easter Ninjas – Oh my.
UPDATE 01.22: Thoughtful response from, Bob Franquiz, I’m Still Learning. I’m Still Growing. I can also see how this particular idea came to be. I have been there. Folks are gathered in a room...
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Pre-Order Your Signed Copy of My New Book on Race
We are getting closer and closer. With few bumps in the road, most of the delays now lie squarely with me. The developmental edit is complete, the cover art is almost there and now I need to push...
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Book Excerpt — He’s a different kind of Black
Bruce and Craig, 1986-87 Below is an excerpt from my new Kickstarted book, But I Don’t See You as Asian: curating Conversations about Race. As I mentioned in the opening chapter about Lorenzo, I...
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How I Survive Everyday Racism
Flicker image: tweedledeedesigns One of my first memories of being a pastor was a visit I made to one of our home-bound members, Julie (not her real name). Julie had been a child of the church, had...
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10 Tips for being a good ally
“I Stand on the Right Side of History” — SF PRide 2011 — Photo: Reyes-Chow This past weekend, I had the privilege of spending a few days with the folks at the 2014 Christianity 21 Conference in...
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Optimistic, Cautious and Curious about ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat
Here is the trailer to the latest all-Asian sitcom, ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat. First, I will be watching this. Second, if you think there is ANY consensus about this show within the Asian American...
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Colorlines’ Life Cycles of Inequality: A Series on Black Men
First watch this video from Colorlines’ Life Cycles of Inequality: A Series on Black Men. As I watched this video, I noticed myself holding onto some of the VERY views that these eight black young men...
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Talk with your kids about Ferguson
A few months ago I was asked to speak about race at a cooperative pre-school here in San Francisco. The group was mostly white middle to upper middle class and socially progressive. There were a few...
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BRC and Friends with Marcia Mount Shoop: Jesus, Football and American Ninja...
BRC and Friends is a 30-minute Google Hangout where I chat with friends and adventurers from around the interwebs. Each episode includes conversations a current project or passion, some random current...
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BRC and Friends with Larissa Kwong Abazia: Ferguson, Presbyterians and The...
BRC and Friends is a 30-minute Google Hangout where I chat with friends and adventurers from around the interwebs. Each episode includes conversations about one of my guests passions, projects or area...
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