Mary, Anna and I celebrated Reg's birthday today too. We miss him so much. I believe that Marc Johnston at Denver University has taken over the reins of the journal. Live in peace.
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I have often wondered how the Journal is doing? Anyone from UC Santa Barbara visiting here today? I miss my friend so profoundly. I always remembered him on his Birthday, even if we hadn't talked all year. heavenly love to you Reg.
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Happy Birthday to a very special neighbor, who felt more like family. Our kitty Ayla Happy Birthday , Meow meows … He is never forgotten by this family.. Miss you. We will do a cheers to you.
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Our kitty, Ayla, would sit at our screen door, waiting for Reginald to come up the stairs. He loved seeing our cat, and would talk with myself and my husband for a while, gossiping about HOA. All three of us felt like he was family & not just some guy who lived across the way from us. We miss you, Reginald.
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I am so shocked and sorry to hear this. For more than 15 years, Reg and I exchanged work, including our most recent manuscripts and publications, without ever meeting in person! He was always awake at all hours, so wherever I was in the world, he would respond to emails almost immediately. Our last correspondence was "Really Great Work" only a few weeks before he died. It recently occurred to me that I had not heard from him for awhile, and as I was looking for one of his articles, I was shocked to come across announcements of his passing. It makes me so sad to know that the world has lost a great scholar and person. My deepest condolences to all of his family, friends and colleagues.
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This goes out to the best quintuple Aries I ever met! I’m thinking of you today and keeping your light alive and well, Reg!
Peace
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I met Reg years ago when he was a guest speaker for Multiracial Americans of Southern California . Our friendship developed from there after discovering our mutual love for classical music. Reg was a warm, loving and kind human being and one I will always be proud to call my friend. See you on the Other Side Reg.
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Reg and I were very close. He honored me with an acknowledgment in his first book. I loved him very much. I think it was mutual.
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Happy ( belated) Heavenly Birthday my beloved friend. This was the day, every year, that I would email you and you would answer, a check in date. Though I hadn’t heard your voice in years I always planned a call. I always thought that I’d see you one more time again. Rest in Power my beloved chosen brother. Mar Britton
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I just saw the post on Critically Mixed Race Studies' fb page, of Reg's death. I'm sorry I missed the event yesterday. I met him, maybe, in '94. I was writing my master's thesis on mixed race (Anglo & Mex) in El Paso, Texas, but being from the Bay Area I learned of the course taught at UC Berkeley and from there of this man at UCLA. It started with these long phone conversations, where he'd have to munch on something as 'it was the only way this is going to work.' We ended up having dinner in LA, his ecological base, which he saw as difficult to give up. I attend one of his classes. His students loved him, though also saw the final assignment as daunting. When he spoke of the possibility of UCSB, I wasn't sure it was going to work out. But later visiting him there, he seemed very at home. He was always so attentive to our conversations.
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Thank you so much for allowing us to tune into the memorial service from afar today. I am flooded with beautiful memories of Reg and am so thankful to have known him, and to have heard all the beautiful words about him today. Shortly after starting my first class with him as an undergrad, I remember thinking how cool it was to bump into my professor at the IV co-op, and to see him transporting all his groceries back home to Goleta on a bike, no less! Every interaction with Reg felt inspiring, whether that inspiration came from his infectious joy, his compassionate example, his deep and generous listening, or his equally deep and lightning-quick mind. He was and is a blessing to this world, zichrono livracha. Thank you, Reg, for being the best of humanity and for being a fierce advocate during one of the toughest times in my life. You didn’t have to do that, but it’s just who you were/are. Your spark is present in so many wonderful people, in academia, and in the heart of what it means to work towards a better future. The ripples of your goodness are incalculable.
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2017, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
G. Reginal Daniel and friends at the Critical Mixed Race Studies conference
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2017, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
G. Reginald Daniel and Paul Spickard at the Critical Mixed Race Studies conference
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2017, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Paul Spickard, G. Reginald Daniel, Maria P.P. Root, and Cindy Nakashima at the Critical Mixed Race Studies conference
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2012, Japanese American National Museum, North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Steven F. Riley and G. Reginal Daniel on a panel at the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival
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Reg was a wonderful colleague and friend to me during my time at UCSB. The news is still raw, but today, nothing but smiles in remembering fond (and fun) memories with a good friend.
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Having Reg as a professor, mentor, and member of my dissertation committee was such a gift, and by this I mean not necessarily his expertise (which we all know is profound), but his understanding of my mixedness. As a mixed heritage Mexican American in a Chicanx Studies PhD program, it was he who first understood my insistence that first- and second-generation mixedness is experientially and conceptually different than mestizaje. Sitting in his office, with the low, warm lamp light contrasting the winter evening beyond the window, being able to say this and not have it questioned allowed me to finally exhale. The power of that moment will always stay with me, and I've aspired to pay that forward with my own students. Reg's scholarship, including his promotion of my own work; his mentorship; his voice and laugh, are all such gifts. I miss him deeply.
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Reg once told me that he started talking when he was six months old. The first word he said was "light."
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Bill Bielby
2003, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
By the time Reg received his Ph.D. in 1987 he was already recognized as a leading activist advocating for the interests of people of mixed-race heritage and identity and was doing pioneering work in the emerging field of mixed-race studies. For the next decade he supported himself travelling the rocky road of soft-money lectureships, at UCLA, and, starting in 1992, my first year as department chair, at UCSB, with some other stops along the way. It wasn’t until 1998, my last year as chair, that Reg, at last, achieved the career stability and academic recognition that comes with a tenure track position. By time he was promoted to tenure in 2003 he was widely recognized as one of the most distinguished scholars in the field that was coming to be known as critical mixed-race studies. By then, his academic colleagues were finally recognizing that he was not just that guy whose quantitative teaching evaluations were off the end of the scale, but that indeed he was, and had been throughout his academic career, and extraordinarily talented and dedicated teacher and mentor. The testimonials here from former students speak to that remarkable quality of his.
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I am deeply grateful to have had the opportunity to know Reg. From the moment I first met him during my job interview until our last correspondence, he was a wonderfully supportive and kind friend and colleague. I loved his great sense of humor, which brightened up everything. He was unmistakably devoted to students, to our department, and to his important work in the area of Critical Mixed Race Studies. He has left a major legacy--Reg was an inspiration to me and to so many others. My deepest condolences to his family and friends. We miss you, Reg.
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I think it is safe to say there will never be anyone quite like Reg! We loved him for his eccentricities, and he never failed to inspire us with his clever sense of humor, his intellectual breadth, and his deep passion for teaching and research on multiraciality. My condolences to his family, friends, colleagues, and students. I cannot imagine our department without Reg. But he leaves a powerful legacy for future students and faculty in the area of mixed race studies.
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My condolences to Reg's family. I first met Reg when I applied for a faculty position at UCSB. We were both Brazilianists and we had both done research in what was then the nascent field of Mixed Race Studies. I will always appreciate Reg's passion and his intellectual commitments to this area of research. Reg had so many talents. I will miss his sense of humor, intellectual verve,abd his spirit of generosity towards students and colleagues.
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