{"id":34066,"date":"2013-10-03T04:48:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T04:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34066"},"modified":"2013-11-02T22:20:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T22:20:31","slug":"fulbeck%e2%80%99s-book-accomplishes-its-goal-of-bringing-awareness-about-hapas-to-themselves-and-to-the-larger-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34066","title":{"rendered":"Fulbeck\u2019s book accomplishes its goal of bringing awareness about Hapas to themselves and to the larger society&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seaweedproductions.com\/about\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">[Kip] Fulbeck\u2019s<\/a> book accomplishes its goal of bringing awareness about <em>Hapas<\/em> to themselves and to the larger society. It creates a recognizable space for a particular group of mixed-race people that asserts itself against the traditional racial paradigm dominated by a logic of monoraciality, expands race beyond a black\/white racial line, and sutures personal narrative back onto the visual images of mixed-race bodies. Although some elements of the book may work against the very multiplicity it seeks to convey, <em>its most powerful impact is its promotion of a self-identification process through storytelling and narrative<\/em>, which cannot be accomplished through the current racial language of identity, nor through bodily identification. By permitting the subjects not only to see themselves in the visual images of <em>Hapaness<\/em> but, more importantly, to speak for themselves and formulate their own sense of identity (whatever that may be), Fulbeck\u2019s project resists simply (re)figuring <em>Hapaness<\/em> as a stabilized identity or giving into the community-forming demands of horizontal comradeship and <em>hapagenization<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nicole Miyoshi Rabin, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=24960\" target=\"_blank\">Picturing the Mix: Visual and Linguistic Representations in Kip Fulbeck\u2019s Part Asian, 100% Hapa<\/a>,\u201d <em>Critical Studies in Media Communication<\/em>, (Volume 29, Issue 5, 2012). <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/15295036.2012.691610\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/15295036.2012.691610<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Kip] Fulbeck\u2019s book accomplishes its goal of bringing awareness about Hapas to themselves and to the larger society. It creates a recognizable space for a particular group of mixed-race people that asserts itself against the traditional racial paradigm dominated by a logic of monoraciality, expands race beyond a black\/white racial line, and sutures personal narrative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11302,60,6055,11646,3727],"class_list":["post-34066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-critical-studies-in-media-communication","tag-kip-fulbeck","tag-nicole-m-rabin","tag-nicole-miyoshi-rabin","tag-nicole-rabin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34066","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=34066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}