{"id":36451,"date":"2014-05-21T15:05:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36451"},"modified":"2014-05-21T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:31:57","slug":"hafu-an-amazing-start-but-we-need-to-go-deeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36451","title":{"rendered":"“Hafu” an AMAZING Start But We Need to Go Deeper"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Hafu” an AMAZING Start But We Need to Go Deeper<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Multiracial Asian Families<\/a>
\n2014-05-20<\/p>\n

Sharon Chang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

About a week ago I had the chance to do something I’ve been wanting to do (and bugging the filmmakers about for a long time)\u2014finally go to a local screening of the documentary Hafu<\/i><\/a>, meaning “half,” which represents 5 stories of mixed heritage Japanese folks navigating their multi\/identities in Japan today. The film was made by a production team<\/a> of mostly mixed-race Japanese themselves many either having been raised, born and raised, or with very close ties to the country. The movie shares with us the lived lives of<\/a>: Edward<\/b> (Venezuelan\/Japanese), The Oi Family<\/b> particularly their son Alex<\/b> (Mexican\/Japanese), David<\/b> (Ghanaian\/Japanese), Fusae<\/b> (Korean\/Japanese), and Sophia<\/b> (Australian\/Japanese)…<\/p>\n

…Overall I think this documentary is a must-see. But (and you knew there was gonna be a “but”)\u2014I would like to see the conversation go deeper. To me it felt like there was the proverbial elephant-in-the-room that never quite got called out. A missing critique of the systems and institutions of state, nation and global race politics that press against mixed heritage peoples, intrude upon, limit, and often direct their ID construction…<\/p>\n

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

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