{"id":51087,"date":"2017-01-08T03:40:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T03:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51087"},"modified":"2017-01-08T03:40:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T03:40:19","slug":"he-notes-how-the-mainstream-media-has-latched-onto-the-happy-hapa-magical-mixie-happy-hybrid-racial-ambassador-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51087","title":{"rendered":"He notes how the mainstream media has latched onto the \u201chappy hapa,\u201d \u201cmagical mixie,\u201d \u201chappy hybrid,\u201d \u201cracial ambassador,\u201d and \u201cpost-racial messiah\u201d stereotypes of multiracial individuals that are dangerous&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/g-reginald-daniel\" target=\"_blank\">Professor G. Reginald Daniel<\/a>, who edits the <em>Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies<\/em>, both based out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsb.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of California, Santa Barbara<\/a>, understands mixed-race events are naturally fun and exciting but he hopes young attendees recognize the legal, physical and psychological struggles and trauma older multiracial generations have gone through&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And while [<a href=\"mailto:mixedinthesix@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed in the Six<\/a>] MIT6 guests often cheekily gush over one another\u2019s attractiveness (many attendees happen to work as models, actors and performers), Daniel hopes mixed-race millennials don\u2019t get caught up in a strictly superficial multiracial discourse.<\/p>\n<p>He notes how the mainstream media has latched onto the \u201chappy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">hapa<\/a>,\u201d \u201cmagical mixie,\u201d \u201chappy hybrid,\u201d \u201cracial ambassador,\u201d and \u201cpost-racial messiah\u201d stereotypes of multiracial individuals that are dangerous because they portray \u201coverenthusiastic images, including notions that multiracial individuals in the post-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1954%E2%80%931968)\" target=\"_blank\">Civil rights era<\/a> no longer experience any racial trauma and conflict about their identity.\u201d\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Erin Kobayashi, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51064\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed in the Six pop-up events created to support multiracial Torontonians<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Toronto Star<\/em>, January 3, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/life\/2017\/01\/03\/mixed-in-the-six-pop-up-events-created-to-support-multiracial-torontonians.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/life\/2017\/01\/03\/mixed-in-the-six-pop-up-events-created-to-support-multiracial-torontonians.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor G. Reginald Daniel, who edits the Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies, both based out of the University of California, Santa Barbara, understands mixed-race events are naturally fun and exciting but he hopes young attendees recognize the legal, physical and psychological struggles and trauma older multiracial generations have gone through&#8230; &#8230;And while [Mixed in [&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":[4836,142,4798,2117],"class_list":["post-51087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-erin-kobayashi","tag-g-reginald-daniel","tag-the-toronto-star","tag-toronto-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51087","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=51087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51088,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51087\/revisions\/51088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}