{"id":17824,"date":"2011-11-14T01:32:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T01:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17824"},"modified":"2011-11-15T21:52:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T21:52:43","slug":"one-big-hapa-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17824","title":{"rendered":"One Big Hapa Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Big Hapa Family<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kcts9.org\" target=\"_blank\">KCTS 9 Television<\/a><br \/>\nReal NW<br \/>\nSeattle, Washington<br \/>\nMonday, 2011-11-14, 22:00 PST<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kcts9.org\/reel-nw\/one-big-hapa-family\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kcts9.org\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/618x350\/homepage-slides\/hap618x350.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a family reunion, Japanese-Canadian filmmaker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meditatingbunny.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Chiba Stearns<\/a> embarks on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married interracially after his grandparents\u2019 generation.<\/p>\n<p>Using a mix of live action and animation, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/onebighapafamily.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Big Hapa Family<\/a>,\u201d explores why almost 100 percent of Japanese-Canadians\u2014more than any other ethnic group\u2014marry interracially and how their mixed children perceive their unique multiracial identities.<\/p>\n<p>The stories of our generations of a Japanese-Canadian family to come to life through animation by some of Canada\u2019s brightest independent animators, including Louise Johnson, Ben Meinhardt, Todd Ramsay, Kunal Sen, Jonathan Ng, and the filmmaker himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne Big Hapa Family\u201d makes us question: Is interracial mixing the end of multiculturalism as we know it?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/kcts9.org\/reel-nw\/one-big-hapa-family\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Big Hapa Family KCTS 9 Television Real NW Seattle, Washington Monday, 2011-11-14, 22:00 PST After a family reunion, Japanese-Canadian filmmaker, Jeff Chiba Stearns embarks on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married interracially after his grandparents\u2019 generation. Using a mix of live action and animation, \u201cOne Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19,414,125,8,394,20,842],"tags":[5682,8206],"class_list":["post-17824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-canada","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-jeff-chiba-stearns","tag-kcts-9-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17824","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=17824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}