Kai Mitsuru Wilkin

@kaimitsuru.bsky.social

Researcher of race and multiraciality with a focus on Japaneseness and Asianness and their transpositions in so-called Canada. @tatamiroom.bsky.social

At UCLA for the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference! I’ll be presenting my theory on Name Remixing, drawn from research on the multiracial Nikkei diaspora in Canada. Feeling really grateful to be learning alongside so many brilliant people in this small but growing field. More soon! 🤞😊 #CMRS

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Remember her? This computer-generated woman appeared on the cover of Time in 1993. As a teen, her face brought some comfort. Seeing her again 30 years later felt entirely different. This short piece reflects on the New Eve’s hollow fantasy of a post-racial future. open.substack.com/pub/tatamiro...

The Dawn of the New Eve

In 1993 — the year I was born — Time magazine ran a special issue titled “The New Face of America.” The subheading read: How Immigrants Are Shaping the World's First Multicultural Society. Its cover f...

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In August 2024, my article "Multiraciality & Racialized Politics in the United States" (Capili 2024, doi.org/10.1080/1070...) was published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. I examine the intersection of race and politics through multiracial identity.

Multiraciality and racialized politics in the United States

In the United States, political ideology and political party affiliation provide important indicators of multiracial individuals’ place in the historic racial order. I ask the following research qu...

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the most embarrassing part of being a “100 tabs open at once” guy is when you inadvertently close them and don’t even notice and there are absolutely no negative consequences

“We provide evidence that the multiracial boom was largely a statistical illusion resulting from methodological changes that confounded ancestry with identity and mistakenly equated national origin with race.” sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11...

The Multiracial Complication: The 2020 Census and the Fictitious Multiracial Boom

Article: The Multiracial Complication: The 2020 Census and the Fictitious Multiracial Boom | Sociological Science | Posted December 3, 2024

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🚨 Excited to share my new article published at Social Problems that rethinks the field’s engagement w/ Liberation Sociology! When interviewing Black Millennials about their racial, religious, & political lives during Black Lives Matter, liberation came up a lot. This study examines those narratives.

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All 6 of Edward W. Said's recorded Reith lectures on Representations of the Intellectual can be heard here: 1) Representations of the Intellectual 2) Holding Nations And Traditions At Bay 3) Intellectual Exiles 4) Professionals and Amateurs 5) Speaking Truth To Power 6) Gods That Always Fail

BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Edward Said - Representation of the Intellectual - Available now

Available episodes of Edward Said - Representation of the Intellectual

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