{"id":22083,"date":"2013-08-20T01:27:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T01:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22083"},"modified":"2016-11-01T00:24:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:24:25","slug":"thinking-about-that-notion-of-the-hyphen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22083","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m quite interested in thinking about that notion of the hyphen. That little thing that\u2019s in-between. Let\u2019s say, \u201cChinese-Canadian\u201d&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m quite interested in thinking about that notion of the hyphen. That little thing that\u2019s in-between. Let\u2019s say, \u201cChinese-Canadian,\u201d or \u201cJapanese-Canadian.\u201d I like to challenge those two poles, those two hegemonous poles who want to claim a part of me. Because I feel like I\u2019ve lived in-between and I <em>like<\/em> the in-between.\u00a0 It\u2019s a place that I would like to spruce-up a bit. I like to, you know, put some nice furniture in the in-between place.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredwah.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Wah<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anne Marie Nakagawa, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=12301\" target=\"_blank\">Between: Living in the Hyphen<\/a>,\u201d <em>National Film Board of Canada<\/em>, (2005): 00:0:28-00:01:02.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m quite interested in thinking about that notion of the hyphen. That little thing that\u2019s in-between. Let\u2019s say, \u201cChinese-Canadian,\u201d or \u201cJapanese-Canadian.\u201d I like to challenge those two poles, those two hegemonous poles who want to claim a part of me. Because I feel like I\u2019ve lived in-between and I like the in-between.\u00a0 It\u2019s a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21456,8386,5523],"class_list":["post-22083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-anne-marie-nakagawa","tag-fred-wah","tag-national-film-board-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083","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=22083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43326,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083\/revisions\/43326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}