{"id":26865,"date":"2012-12-10T00:35:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T00:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26865"},"modified":"2015-02-16T20:04:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T20:04:26","slug":"hapa-one-step-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26865","title":{"rendered":"Hapa: One Step at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/caamedia.org\/films\/hapa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hapa: One Step at a Time<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caamedia.org\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Asian American Media<\/a><br \/>\n2001<br \/>\n26 minutes<br \/>\nDVD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midori Sperandeo<\/strong>, Producer<br \/>\nKVIE-TV<\/p>\n<p>According to 2000 Census statistics, nearly 7 million Americans identify themselves as multi-racial, or &#8216;hapa.&#8217; This engaging first-person documentary is about marathon runner and TV producer Midori Sperandeo\u2019s struggles to come to terms with her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">hapa<\/a> identity. Comparing her personal path toward self-awareness as a hapa to the challenges she faces training for long-distance running, <em>Hapa<\/em> touches upon a national history of anti-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> laws, increasing rates of interracial marriages and additional census data to provide a context with which to better understand this rapidly growing demographic group. Interviews with individuals from diverse backgrounds call attention to the pressure many feel to \u201cchoose\u201d between cultural heritages; their anxieties of feeling like outsiders in their parents\u2019 communities; and the unique ways in which the hapa community is enriching the cultural fabric of our society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hapa: One Step at a Time Center for Asian American Media 2001 26 minutes DVD Midori Sperandeo, Producer KVIE-TV According to 2000 Census statistics, nearly 7 million Americans identify themselves as multi-racial, or &#8216;hapa.&#8217; This engaging first-person documentary is about marathon runner and TV producer Midori Sperandeo\u2019s struggles to come to terms with her hapa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,395,33,125,1467,8,20,842],"tags":[13056,13055,13054],"class_list":["post-26865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-center-for-asian-american-media","tag-kvie-tv","tag-midori-sperandeo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26865","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=26865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}