{"id":3013,"date":"2009-11-11T04:13:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T04:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2013-01-16T22:43:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T22:43:42","slug":"hapa-girl-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3013","title":{"rendered":"Hapa Girl: A Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.temple.edu\/tempress\/titles\/1906_reg_print.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hapa Girl: A Memoir<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.temple.edu\/tempress\" target=\"_blank\">Temple University Press<br \/>\n<\/a>March 2007<br \/>\n232 pages<br \/>\n5.5&#215;8.25, 12 halftones<br \/>\nPaper EAN: 978-1-59213-616-2 (ISBN: 1592136168)<br \/>\nCloth EAN: 978-1-59213-615-5 (ISBN: 159213615X<\/p>\n<p><strong>May-lee Chai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.temple.edu\/tempress\/titles\/1906_reg_print.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.temple.edu\/tempress\/titles\/1906_reg.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Named one of the Notable Books in the Kiriyama Prize, 2008<\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention at the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards, 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by a mixed-race family in rural South Dakota<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. In <em>Hapa Girl<\/em> (&#8220;hapa&#8221; is Hawaiian for &#8220;mixed&#8221;) their daughter tells the story of this loving family as they moved from Southern California to New York to a South Dakota farm by the 1980s. In their new Midwestern home, the family finds itself the object of unwelcome attention, which swiftly escalates to violence. The Chais are suddenly socially isolated and barely able to cope with the tension that arises from daily incidents of racial animosity, including random acts of cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>May-lee Chai&#8217;s memoir ends in China, where she arrives just in time to witness a riot and demonstrations. Here she realizes that the rural Americans&#8217; &#8220;fears of change, of economic uncertainty, of racial anxiety, of the unknowable future compared to the known past were the same as China&#8217;s. And I realized finally that it had not been my fault.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prologue<br \/>\nChapter 1: The Wearing of the Green<br \/>\nChapter 2: The Sexy Artist Meets the Boy From New York City<br \/>\nChapter 3: How to Charm a Mother-in-Law<br \/>\nChapter 4: California Dreamin&#8217;<br \/>\nChapter 5: The Banana<br \/>\nChapter 6: The Banana&#8217;s Revenge<br \/>\nChapter 7: Autumn in the Country<br \/>\nChapter 8: Hunting Season<br \/>\nChapter 9: The Little Things<br \/>\nChapter 10: The Closet<br \/>\nChapter 11: My Last Confession<br \/>\nChapter 12: Bugs<br \/>\nChapter 13: The Fall of the Prince<br \/>\nChapter 14: The Jade Tree<br \/>\nChapter 15: The Nights of Many Prayers<br \/>\nChapter 16: What You Don&#8217;t Know Can Hurt You<br \/>\nChapter 17: Stephen King High<br \/>\nChapter 18: Barbarians<br \/>\nChapter 19: Glamour Puss<br \/>\nChapter 20: The Cannibals<br \/>\nChapter 21: The Fine Art of Denial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hapa Girl: A Memoir Temple University Press March 2007 232 pages 5.5&#215;8.25, 12 halftones Paper EAN: 978-1-59213-616-2 (ISBN: 1592136168) Cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-615-5 (ISBN: 159213615X May-lee Chai Named one of the Notable Books in the Kiriyama Prize, 2008 Honorable Mention at the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards, 2007 A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,395,11,8,17,20,25],"tags":[1088,358],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","category-women","tag-may-lee-chai","tag-temple-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","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=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}