Tag: Mia Nakaji Monnier

  • Neither One Nor The Other: Why I Love Being Mixed-Race Discover Nikkei 2015-10-20 Mia Nakaji Monnier I love those parts that seem incompatible but that, in a person, come together. During my first week of college, I met a guy who, like me, had a long, four-part name. When I told him mine, he said,…

  • The New Normal The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-04-11 Mia Nakaji Monnier, Rafu Staff Writer Hapa Japan Festival and JANM exhibit celebrate mixed Japanese and Japanese Americans Outside the newest exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum hangs a banner. Up close, visitors can make out individual pictures—each about the size of…

  • Part Asian, Not Hapa Open Salon Thoughts from a Third Culture: on being mixed in America 2010-07-27 Mia Nakaji Monnier My mother is Japanese from Osaka; my father, American from a small town in Western Oregon. There’s a word for people like me, used especially on the West Coast and popularized in recent years, maybe…