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“Through the prism of the individual stories of rapes of black women, the failed promise of Reconstruction, the great migration of black Southerners to the North…Professor Gates lays bare the basic contradiction of the American dream.”
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Interesting article, but Kamiya’s insistence on terms like “transcending race” and “colorblindness” totally miss the point. “In search of his identity, Barack Obama took the opposite path that I did. But we arrived at the same place — and I’m voting for
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“The March 2008 “Hollywood” issue of Vanity Fair is out, and there is nary a woman of color to be seen on its Annie Leibowitz-photographed cover. After the fold, however, actresses Zoe Saldana, Alice Braga and America Ferrera…can be seen.”
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atlasien wrote:
Kamiya has good writing in other areas but a real blind spot when it comes to race. His views are infuriating and quite offensive to other multiracial people who have had to overcome a lot of difficult issues and establish their identity in an ethical way. I’m half-Japanese/half-white, just like him, and NEVER had this privilege to “transcend race” he’s talking about (other less charitable people might instead call it “the privilege to pretend they’re white”). Just because he grew up in a really tolerant environment in the Bay Area he thinks everyone is like that. Smug bastard! Everyone he writes about how peaceful and easy it is to be biracial I feel like kicking him hard in the shin.
Posted 06 Feb 2008 at 7:49 am ¶