{"id":56738,"date":"2018-09-19T17:27:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T17:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56738"},"modified":"2018-09-19T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T17:28:13","slug":"hapa-tales-and-other-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56738","title":{"rendered":"Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Mixed Race Memoir About the Hawai\u2018i I Never Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Mixed Race Memoir About the Hawai\u2018i I Never Knew<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Rising Song Press
\n2018-09-15
\n210 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-732484702<\/p>\n

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

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In her first work of literary nonfiction, Sharon H. Chang reflects critically on her Asian American, Mixed Race, and activist identity through the prism of returning to Hawai\u2018i<\/a> as a tourist. While visiting O\u2018ahu<\/a> and Kaua\u2018i<\/a> she considers childhood trips to Maua\u2018i<\/a> and the Big Island<\/a>, pop culture and Hollywood movies of her youth that perpetuated Hawaiian stereotypes, and what it means that she has been stereotyped as a \u201cHawai\u2018i Girl\u201d her whole life though she has never lived on the islands. But what begins as a journey to unpack the ways she has been perceived and treated as a multiracial woman evolves into much more as Sharon learns the real impacts of colonization and corporate tourism on Hawai\u2018i and uncovers what her Asian multiracial \u201cmainland\u201d identity actually looks like in relationship to the land, its Indigenous peoples, and the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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