Posts Tagged ‘ academia ’

Good Asian American, Bad Asian; or, What Do Responses to the LPGA Reveal about Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in America Today?

March 8, 2010
By The Constructivist
Good Asian American, Bad Asian; or, What Do Responses to the LPGA Reveal about Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in America Today?

Consider for a moment the following thought experiment: what if Michelle Wie had been the player to kick off the LPGA season with back-to-back wins for the 1st time in 44 years, instead of Ai Miyazato? Wouldn't we have been treated to breathless spec...
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sf@SF Is Back!

September 8, 2009
By The Constructivist
sf@SF Is Back!

Just a little public service announcement for those who come to Mostly Harmless looking for stuff on sf, anime, and other aspects of American and transnational popular culture: I've got students in both my undergraduate classes this semester signing u...
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Safeway Classic Friday: Welcome Back! (And Other Themes)

August 29, 2009
By The Constructivist
Safeway Classic Friday:  Welcome Back!  (And Other Themes)

With this semester looking to be the most intense in my career and onechan going back today to her full Saturday schedule of Japanese school in the morning and violin lessons in the early afternoon--plus being less than 2 weeks away from starting kinde...
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Futures Tour Friday

August 14, 2009
By The Constructivist
Futures Tour Friday

I have to register a complaint with the good people who run the Futures Tour. Why, oh why, did they wait till Richmond to put my 2 favorite players on tour, Tiffany Joh and Hannah Yun, in the same pairing? And with an amateur from Russia! They go of...
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