{"id":56051,"date":"2018-04-10T20:51:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T20:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56051"},"modified":"2018-04-10T02:52:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T02:52:55","slug":"hama-me-15-years-of-the-hapa-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56051","title":{"rendered":"hapa.me: 15 Years of the Hapa Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janm.org\/exhibits\/hapa-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>hapa.me: 15 Years of the Hapa Project<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janm.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japanese American National Museum<\/a><br \/>\n100 North Central Avenue<br \/>\nLos Angeles, California 90012<br \/>\n<strong>2018-04-07 through 2018-10-28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janm.org\/exhibits\/hapa-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.janm.org\/exhibitions\/hapa-me\/JANM-hapa-me-header.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The word \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hapa<\/a>\u201d is the Hawaiian transliteration of the English word \u201chalf.\u201d Much of its current usage derives from the phrase <em>hapa haole<\/em>, meaning \u201chalf white.\u201d The phrase was originally coined by native Hawaiians to describe the mixed offspring resulting from encounters between islanders and White settlers. In subsequent years, hapa (or Hapa) has come into popular usage away from the islands, most frequently embraced by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asian_Pacific_American\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asian\/Pacific Islander Americans<\/a> of mixed descent.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Kip Fulbeck created <a href=\"https:\/\/kipfulbeck.com\/the-hapa-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hapa Project<\/a> in 2001, traveling the country to photograph over 1,200 volunteers who identified as Hapa. The Hapa Project\u2019s goal was to promote awareness and recognition of the millions of Hapas in the United States; to give voice to multiracial people and other previously ignored ethnic groups; to dispel myths around exoticism, hybrid superiority, and racial homogeneity; and to foster positive identity formation in multiracial children. In 2006, Fulbeck published the first book and premiered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa<\/em><\/a>, the first museum exhibition to explicitly explore Hapa identity. That exhibition remains one of the most popular in the history of the Japanese American National Museum, setting attendance records before traveling throughout the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US<\/a> and abroad. The exhibition broke new ground in exploring identity through photographic portraits of mixed-race subjects, paired with the participants\u2019 handwritten responses to the typically posed question, \u201cWhat are you?\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janm.org\/exhibits\/hapa-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Kip Fulbeck created The Hapa Project in 2001, traveling the country to photograph over 1,200 volunteers who identified as Hapa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,125,8,20],"tags":[685,60,28269],"class_list":["post-56051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-japanese-american-national-museum","tag-kip-fulbeck","tag-the-hapa-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56051","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=56051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56142,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56051\/revisions\/56142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}