Another Perspective on Racial Identity

I’m tardy on this one, but this NPR report about Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang’s latest work, Yellow Face, really captured my attention during the morning commute a few weeks back. Hwang’s play is a comedy that raises serious questions about racial politics from an Asian American perspective. Here’s part of the official promo [...]

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Why Racial Identity Matters

Don’t want to turn this blog into a Barack Obama clearinghouse, but I just read Fareed Zakaria’s column in the latest Newsweek and, even apart from the Obama context, I think his comments are relevant to the themes we grapple with here. Zakaria writes about his recent change of heart regarding the notion that one’s racial identity and minority [...]

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An Obama-Huckabee Ticket?

In one of my comments under the “Are Black Voters Sleeping?” post, I half-jokingly pondered the possibility of a Barack Obama-Mike Huckabee ticket. Though these two are on different sides of the spectrum on many issues, I began to sense weeks ago that they share something in common. I think both Obama and Huckabee exhibit a fresh [...]

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