{"id":24960,"date":"2012-08-25T04:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T04:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24960"},"modified":"2017-04-20T03:29:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T03:29:50","slug":"picturing-the-mix-visual-and-linguistic-representations-in-kip-fulbecks-part-asian-100-hapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24960","title":{"rendered":"Picturing the Mix: Visual and Linguistic Representations in Kip Fulbeck’s Part Asian, 100% Hapa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picturing the Mix: Visual and Linguistic Representations in Kip Fulbeck’s Part Asian, 100% Hapa<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Critical Studies in Media Communication<\/a>
\nVolume 29, Issue 5<\/a> (2012)
\npages 387-402
\nDOI: 10.1080\/15295036.2012.691610<\/a><\/p>\n

Nicole Miyoshi Rabin<\/strong>
\nUniversity of Hawaii, Manoa<\/em><\/p>\n

In response to perceived invisibility within a black\/white racial paradigm governed by hypodescent<\/a>, various multiracial people have begun to speak out against a lack of recognition of their multiplicitous identities. Along with state recognition (i.e., the 2000 census), many of these multiracial identity activists desire a sense of community built around racial multiplicity. In an attempt to develop a community, various methods have been employed, and this article focuses on one such implementation of community building. Using a semiotic<\/a> approach combined with the literary method of close reading<\/a>, this article will explore and analyze the photographic book project, Part Asian, 100% Hapa<\/a><\/em>, by Kip Fulbeck<\/a>. The article will examine how an \u201cimagined community\u201d of Hapas<\/a> is created through the project and photographs themselves, but also how the photos work to homogenize the very multiplicity they seek to represent.<\/strong> I will look at the use of photographs as a means of subverting the common usage of the body as a racial signifier and thereby show the limitations of racial language. Finally, I will explore the linguistic elements of representation: how do the Hapa subjects’ self-descriptions work against or with the photograph and the project as a whole? Thinking about how those photographed in the book respond to the book’s central focus of a stabilized Hapa identity is a critical approach that has the benefit of disrupting the limitations of our racial language, our need for stabilized racial identities, and any homogenization that occurs through the aesthetic project itself. I hope to question the photographic project so that multiracial people can avoid becoming complicit in a new form of racial domination and\/or racialization, while also respecting the work that this project has done for Hapas’ visibility.<\/p>\n

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

In response to perceived invisibility within a black\/white racial paradigm governed by hypodescent, various multiracial people have begun to speak out against a lack of recognition of their multiplicitous identities. Along with state recognition (i.e., the 2000 census), many of these multiracial identity activists desire a sense of community built around racial multiplicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8413,1196,8,20],"tags":[11302,60,6055,11646,3726,3727],"class_list":["post-24960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-communications","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-critical-studies-in-media-communication","tag-kip-fulbeck","tag-nicole-m-rabin","tag-nicole-miyoshi-rabin","tag-nicole-myoshi-rabin","tag-nicole-rabin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960","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=24960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53585,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960\/revisions\/53585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}