{"id":4771,"date":"2010-01-27T19:58:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4771"},"modified":"2010-01-27T19:58:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:58:21","slug":"half-vs-double-hybrid-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4771","title":{"rendered":"Half vs. Double: Hybrid Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovernikkei.org\/en\/journal\/2008\/3\/28\/little-momo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Half vs. Double: Hybrid Mathematics<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Column: <em>Little Momo in the Big Apple<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovernikkei.org\" target=\"_blank\">Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrans and Their Descendants<\/a><br \/>\n2008-03-28<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovernikkei.org\/journal\/authors\/fujita-simone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Simone Momoye Fujita<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My mother is Japanese American, and my father is African American.<\/p>\n<p>According to this equation, most would assert that this fact makes me exactly one-half Asian and one-half Black, right? I whole-heartedly disagree. When faced with an either\/or dilemma, I will defiantly choose the both\/and option. The sum of my parts, racially speaking, is greater than one. Let me explain:<\/p>\n<p>I am of the school of thought that takes the math-defying stance that mixed people are not split schizophrenically down the middle when it comes to their ethnic identities. This means that despite my ambiguous phenotypic appearance, I consider myself just as Japanese American as anyone who was born to two Japanese American parents. The same applies to my African American side. The fact that my parents are of two different races is incidental to the big picture \u2013 my blended cultural heritage cannot be quantified in percentages. If one should insist on doing so, the most accurate description would be to say that I am 100% Japanese and 100% African American, much like a participant in<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janm.org\/exhibits\/kipfulbeck\/\" target=\"_blank\">kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa<\/a><\/em> exhibition suggested&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovernikkei.org\/en\/journal\/2008\/3\/28\/little-momo\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half vs. Double: Hybrid Mathematics Column: Little Momo in the Big Apple Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrans and Their Descendants 2008-03-28 Simone Momoye Fujita My mother is Japanese American, and my father is African American. According to this equation, most would assert that this fact makes me exactly one-half Asian and one-half Black, right? I whole-heartedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,125,8,394],"tags":[1922,1923],"class_list":["post-4771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-discover-nikkei","tag-simone-momoye-fujita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771","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=4771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}