{"id":11556,"date":"2011-01-18T06:10:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T06:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11556"},"modified":"2011-10-27T19:35:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:35:55","slug":"the-hapa-project-how-multiracial-identity-crosses-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11556","title":{"rendered":"The Hapa Project: How multiracial identity crosses oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.hawaii.edu\/uhtoday\/spring2007\/j402\/alanatina.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Hapa Project: How multiracial identity crosses oceans<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.hawaii.edu\/uhtoday\" target=\"_blank\">UH Today<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Hawai`i<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.hawaii.edu\/uhtoday\/spring2007\" target=\"_blank\">Spring 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alana Folen<\/strong> and <strong>Tina Ng<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawaii\" target=\"_blank\">Hawai`i<\/a>\u2014often overlooked as nothing more than a scenic paradise\u2014recently started to live up to its \u201cmelting pot\u201d reputation when a U.S. senator representing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illinois\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois<\/a> formally announced his presidential candidacy. With personal ties to Hawai`i, Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> inadvertently put Hawai`i in the spotlight.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was his physical appearance that separated Obama from his competitors. Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">hapa<\/a>. His father was black and from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenya\" target=\"_blank\">Kenya<\/a>; his mother was white and from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas<\/a>. His unique look brought attention to the hapa population in Hawai`i.<\/p>\n<p>Although the growing population of hapa people is beginning to get recognized, their experiences in Hawai`i and the continental United States vary from each individual. The cultural implications of having multiple identities have surfaced and more hapa people have needed to defend who and what they are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.hawaii.edu\/uhtoday\/spring2007\/j402\/alanatina.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hapa Project: How multiracial identity crosses oceans UH Today University of Hawai`i Spring 2007 Alana Folen and Tina Ng Hawai`i\u2014often overlooked as nothing more than a scenic paradise\u2014recently started to live up to its \u201cmelting pot\u201d reputation when a U.S. senator representing Illinois formally announced his presidential candidacy. With personal ties to Hawai`i, Sen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,63,2895,33,8,394,20],"tags":[5222,43,911,3872,5223,5225,5224],"class_list":{"0":"post-11556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-articles","7":"category-asia","8":"category-barack-obama","9":"category-campus-life","10":"category-census","11":"category-media-archive","12":"category-socialscience","13":"category-usa","14":"tag-alana-folen","15":"tag-hapa","16":"tag-hawaii","18":"tag-tina-ng","19":"tag-uh-today","20":"tag-university-of-hawaii"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}