{"id":6060,"date":"2010-03-17T03:22:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T03:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2011-04-01T18:49:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T18:49:05","slug":"the-role-of-japanese-as-a-heritage-language-in-constructing-ethnic-identity-among-hapa-japanese-canadian-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6060","title":{"rendered":"The role of Japanese as a heritage language in constructing ethnic identity among Hapa Japanese Canadian children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01434630802307874 \" target=\"_blank\">The role of Japanese as a heritage language in constructing ethnic identity among Hapa Japanese Canadian children<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=g908223545\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development<br \/>\nVolume 30, Issue 1<\/a> (February 2009)<br \/>\npages 1-18<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01434630802307874 \" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01434630802307874<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.uvic.ca\/pacificasia\/japanese\/faculty\/noro.php\" target=\"_blank\">Hiroko Noro<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Victoria, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today, Japanese Canadians are marrying outside of their ethnic community at an unprecedented rate, resulting in the creation of a newly identifiable group of &#8216;Japanese Canadians&#8217; borne from these interracial unions.<\/strong> Members of this emergent group are increasingly being referred to both by social scientists and self-referentially as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">Hapa<\/a>. This term, originally a Hawaiian term, is now a common and empowering tool of self-identification for people of mixed ethnic heritage. Recent sociological research argues that, while the notion of a shared Hapa identity exists, <strong>it is less rooted in individual members&#8217; physical appearance or cultural identification and more rooted in their experiences, parental upbringing, and the locality\/environment in which they grew up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/ftinterface~content=a908213702~fulltext=713240930\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The role of Japanese as a heritage language in constructing ethnic identity among Hapa Japanese Canadian children Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development Volume 30, Issue 1 (February 2009) pages 1-18 DOI: 10.1080\/01434630802307874 Hiroko Noro, Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies University of Victoria, Canada Today, Japanese Canadians are marrying outside of their ethnic community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,19,125,8,394],"tags":[43,2507,2508,2506],"class_list":["post-6060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-hapa","tag-hiroko-noro","tag-journal-of-multilingual-and-multicultural-development","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060","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=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}