Today, the National Museum of the American Indian hosted a Symposium called (Re)Presenting America. It brought together high level staff from the Smithsonian’s culturally specific museums and programs, culturally specific affiliate museums, and various other important people, like a Congressman and someone who works for PBS. Given the stakeholders present, it should be pretty clear [...]
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The Evolution and Future of Ethnic Specific Museums
Posted in musings, Washington DC on April 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
An Ethnical Dilemma
Posted in mixed-race, musings on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A friend of mine reblogged this post (http://jasonandtjpoon.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/my-ethnical-dilemma/) and I have to say, it ruined my morning. I’ve been trying to wrap my head around a response for some time now. The short summary is that this guy hoped that his mixed race daughter would look white because it would make her life easier , even [...]
Jeremy Lin for a Brighter Day
Posted in musings, tagged Jeremy Lin on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
People are really excited about Jeremy Lin, the Knicks unstoppable new point guard. This is awesome because so many Asian Americans have been rooting for this guy for so long. I mean, when he was in college, I would get emails from Asian Americans organizing groups to get people to go watch his games. People [...]
