{"id":12461,"date":"2011-03-05T05:05:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T05:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12461"},"modified":"2014-11-09T20:47:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T20:47:24","slug":"a-chat-with-kat-marissa-hui-president-of-hapasc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12461","title":{"rendered":"A Chat with Kat: Marissa Hui, President of HapaSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hercampus.com\/school\/usc\/chat-kat-marissa-hui-president-hapasc?page=show\" target=\"_blank\">A Chat with Kat: Marissa Hui, President of HapaSC<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hercampus.com\" target=\"_blank\">Her Campus<br \/>\n<\/a>2011-02-28<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katharine Goldman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hercampus.com\/school\/usc\/chat-kat-marissa-hui-president-hapasc?page=show\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1123.photobucket.com\/albums\/l543\/hercampusphoto\/My%20Campus%20Branch%20pictures\/Her%20Campus%20USC\/IMG_0330.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember clearly the first time someone used the term \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">hapa<\/a>\u201d: I was a freshman, waiting for Campus Cruiser in front of New\/North, when a random guy asked me if I was hapa.<\/p>\n<p>Not knowing what it meant, I asked for a clarification. He told me that hapa is Hawaiian for half\u2014it\u2019s traditionally used as a term to refer to people who are half-Asian and half-Caucasian.<\/p>\n<p>Marissa Hui, a senior communications major, knows the intricacies of this term well. She\u2019s the president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hapasc.org\" target=\"_blank\">HapaSC<\/a>, an organization on-campus [University of Southen California] dedicated to exploring what it means to be of mixed race, and the exploration of identity that comes with the territory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HC:<\/strong> Tell me about HapaSC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marissa:<\/strong> HapaSC has been around campus for about 10 years. It started originally as a club specifically for students that fit the traditional meaning of \u201chapa:\u201d half-Asian and half-white. Since then, it\u2019s become an all-encompassing club for students of multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Our mission is to create a diverse community where people can explore their identity. Specifically we deal with a lot of topics about being mixed raced and try to cater to that student population. Sometimes students who are mixed race don\u2019t identify completely with [single-culture] groups, or want to be able to explore their backgrounds within one group and not have to sacrifice one group for another&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hercampus.com\/school\/usc\/chat-kat-marissa-hui-president-hapasc?page=show\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chat with Kat: Marissa Hui, President of HapaSC Her Campus 2011-02-28 Katharine Goldman I remember clearly the first time someone used the term \u201chapa\u201d: I was a freshman, waiting for Campus Cruiser in front of New\/North, when a random guy asked me if I was hapa. Not knowing what it meant, I asked for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,2895,8,20,25],"tags":[5588,5587,5589,696],"class_list":["post-12461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-hapasc","tag-katharine-goldman","tag-marissa-hui","tag-university-of-southern-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461","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=12461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}