{"id":24590,"date":"2012-08-01T17:37:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24590"},"modified":"2012-08-01T21:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T21:43:56","slug":"don%e2%80%99t-call-me-hapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24590","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Call Me Hapa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t Call Me Hapa<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

ricepaper: Asian Canadian Arts and Culture<\/a>
\nIssue 16.3<\/a> (Fall 2011) The Hybrid Issue<\/p>\n

Arron Leaf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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THERE WAS A MOMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL when I was fascinated with mixed-race identity and the word \u201cHapa<\/a>.\u201d Using this Hawaiian term meaning \u201chalf\u201d as in \u201chalf-white\u201d to describe myself felt empowering, somehow. My mom is Malaysian and my dad is American and, yes, the clich\u00e9 of mixed-race kids held true for me: Who am I? Where do I fit in?
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\nThrough my brand-new internet connection I learned that \u201cHapa\u201d had been adopted by activists trying to fashion a sense of community and identity out of a new generation of mixed-race Asian kids. At the time, about a decade ago, I was listening to rap music about identity politics, black nationalism, and authenticity. In my grade 11 history class I was learning about colonization and the upheavals of the 20th century. I desperately needed to come from somewhere; I needed an identity to anchor myself, and \u201cHapa\u201d seemed like a way to do that.
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\nBut the moment soon passed…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t Call Me Hapa ricepaper: Asian Canadian Arts and Culture Issue 16.3 (Fall 2011) The Hybrid Issue Arron Leaf THERE WAS A MOMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL when I was fascinated with mixed-race identity and the word \u201cHapa.\u201d Using this Hawaiian term meaning \u201chalf\u201d as in \u201chalf-white\u201d to describe myself felt empowering, somehow. My mom is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,19,8],"tags":[11442,11444,11443],"class_list":["post-24590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-canada","category-media-archive","tag-arron-leaf","tag-ricepaper","tag-ricepaper-asian-canadian-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24590","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=24590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}