{"id":6647,"date":"2010-04-16T01:10:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T01:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2011-10-29T00:07:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T00:07:27","slug":"hapas-emerging-identity-emerging-terms-and-labels-the-social-construction-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6647","title":{"rendered":"Hapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels &#038; the Social Construction of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/aas.stanford.edu\/journal\/papers\/agamble09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Hapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels &amp; the Social Construction of Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aas.stanford.edu\/journal\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies<\/a><br \/>\nVolume II (October 2009)<br \/>\n20 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:adriane@stanfordalumni.org.\" target=\"_blank\">Adriane E. Gamble<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Adriane E. Gamble presents part of her honors thesis in her paper \u201cHapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels, and the Social Construction of Race.\u201d Her paper shows how emerging trends in community, terms and labels, and role models are seen in the growing population in the United States. She writes of how this can be observed both in the development of individuals\u2019 identities and communities as well as a new racial category that offers a contemporary example of the social construction of race. <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The first time I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">hapa<\/a>, I went to this club fair [on campus]\u2026 I heard this voice, \u201cWe\u2019re cool, cause we check the other box!\u201d \u2026 I realized, oh my god, there are more people like me.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Originally a Native Hawaiian word, \u201chapa\u201d is defined as \u201cpart\u201d or \u201cmixed,\u201d with no racial or ethnic meaning. The current use of hapa stems from the phrase hapa haole, meaning \u201chalf foreigner\u201d or \u201chalf White\u201d (Dariotis, 2003). Today, the term is commonly used to describe Asian Pacific Islanders of mixed race heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Conducted in 2004, this research studies how hapa has become a racial identity of its own, distinct from the classically recognized American racial categories of Asian or White. Based on the premise that racial identity is significantly informed by a racial community, and given the historical absence of a hapa community, the question emerges: how does one develop a hapa identity, without a hapa community with which to identify? Trends from the turn of the millennium show the racial landscape has changed, as a community emerged in American society of individuals self-identifying as hapa. Student and community groups have provided communities for hapas, which in turn inform racial identity, leading to an increased population of individuals self-identifying as hapa. The construction of hapa communities and hapa identity as a new racial category offer a contemporary example of the social construction of race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/aas.stanford.edu\/journal\/papers\/agamble09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels &amp; the Social Construction of Race Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies Volume II (October 2009) 20 pages Adriane E. Gamble Adriane E. Gamble presents part of her honors thesis in her paper \u201cHapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels, and the Social Construction of Race.\u201d Her paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,125,8,394,20],"tags":[2790,5097,43,2791],"class_list":["post-6647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-adriane-e-gamble","tag-adriane-gamble","tag-hapa","tag-stanford-journal-of-asian-american-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647","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=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}