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Diversity U.S.A.

Because I’ve spent my life studying diversity, that’s what first struck me about this year’s fab-five of U.S. women’s gymnastics.  I was proud—and even more so because so many others have also commented, with pride, about this team’s diversity. Only … Continue reading

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Miscegenation and Me — Part 1

This is PART 1 of a piece originally written for a proposed book called “Leaving California.” It eventually wound up in SanSan Kwan and Kenneth Speir’s 2004 book Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects.  The book’s cover is reproduced below, and the … Continue reading

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Miscegenation and Me — Part 2

Written originally for a proposed collection of essays by ex-Californian’s in “exile” titled “Leaving California,” this piece eventually wound up in SanSan Kwan and Kenneth Speir’s book Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects (Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 2004): 91-106.   The … Continue reading

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