{"id":42614,"date":"2015-09-09T14:51:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T14:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42614"},"modified":"2015-09-09T14:51:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T14:51:32","slug":"what-are-you-a-personal-poetry-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42614","title":{"rendered":"What Are You? A Personal Poetry Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/gyokota\/what-are-you-a-personal-poetry-reading\" target=\"_blank\">What Are You? A Personal Poetry Reading<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\" target=\"_blank\">Slide Share<\/a><br \/>\n2013-10-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dma.jim.osaka-u.ac.jp\/view?l=en&amp;u=694\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gerry Yokota<\/strong><\/a>, Professor<br \/>\n<em>Osaka University, Osaka, Japan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My reading of the 1971 poem by <a href=\"http:\/\/encyclopedia.densho.org\/Nobuko%20Miyamoto\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>when I was young<br \/>\nkids used to ask me<br \/>\nwhat are you?<br \/>\nI&#8217;d tell them<br \/>\nwhat my mom told me<br \/>\nI&#8217;m an American<br \/>\nChin Chin Chinaman<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re a Jap!<br \/>\nflashing hot inside<br \/>\nI&#8217;d go home<br \/>\nmy mom would say<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t worry<br \/>\nhe who walks alone<br \/>\nwalks faster&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire poem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/gyokota\/what-are-you-a-personal-poetry-reading\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Are You? A Personal Poetry Reading Slide Share 2013-10-18 Gerry Yokota, Professor Osaka University, Osaka, Japan My reading of the 1971 poem by Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto when I was young kids used to ask me what are you? I&#8217;d tell them what my mom told me I&#8217;m an American Chin Chin Chinaman you&#8217;re a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8],"tags":[20965,20966,20964],"class_list":["post-42614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","tag-gerry-yokota","tag-nobuko-joanne-miyamoto","tag-slide-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42614","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=42614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42615,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42614\/revisions\/42615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}