{"id":29997,"date":"2013-03-31T22:38:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T22:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29997"},"modified":"2013-03-31T22:38:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T22:38:25","slug":"aalr-mixed-race-initiative-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29997","title":{"rendered":"AALR Mixed Race Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/akemijohnson.com\/2013\/03\/24\/aalr-mixed-race-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">AALR Mixed Race Initiative<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/akemijohnson.com\" target=\"_blank\">Akemi Johnson<\/a><br \/>\n2013-03-24<\/p>\n<p><strong>Akemi Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ucsb.edu\/people\/person.php?account_id=214\" target=\"_blank\">Lily Anne Yumi Welty<\/a> and I just finished writing our collaborative piece for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/aalrmag.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Asian American Literary Review\u2019s<\/a><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/aalrmag.org\/mixed-race-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">special issue on mixed race<\/a>, coming out this fall. Lily and I shared a summer of research (and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karaoke\" target=\"_blank\">karaoke<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conveyor_belt_sushi\" target=\"_blank\">kaiten sushi<\/a>, officers\u2019 clubs, and sweltering traffic jams) in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Okinawa_Prefecture\" target=\"_blank\">Okinawa<\/a>, although she comes at the topic from a historical, academic angle. Working on this joint piece, we realized how differently we\u2019re used to writing\u2013she\u2019s all about the outline and thesis and being explicit, while I tend to make sense of things as I go, planting dots for readers to connect. We\u2019ll see how our mashup turns out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/akemijohnson.com\/2013\/03\/24\/aalr-mixed-race-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AALR Mixed Race Initiative Akemi Johnson 2013-03-24 Akemi Johnson Historian Lily Anne Yumi Welty and I just finished writing our collaborative piece for The Asian American Literary Review\u2019s special issue on mixed race, coming out this fall. Lily and I shared a summer of research (and karaoke, kaiten sushi, officers\u2019 clubs, and sweltering traffic jams) [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[11655,5519,11654,5616,11653],"class_list":["post-29997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","tag-aalr","tag-akemi-johnson","tag-asian-american-literary-review","tag-lily-anne-yumi-welty","tag-the-asian-american-literary-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29997","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=29997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}