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2013 Research ShowcaseKarla Lucht | [email protected]
A "Mixed" Bag: Searching for Hapa Characters in Youth
Literature
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Defining “Hapa”
• Mixed Race• “Two or more races” (U.S. Census Bureau).• 9 million individuals identified themselves as mixed-race. • 2.6 million Americans identified themselves as part Asian.
• “Hapa”• Defined as “part” or “mixed,” with no racial or ethnic
meaning.• Stems from the phrase “hapa haole.”• Commonly used to describe Asian Pacific Islanders of mixed
race heritage.
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The Search
LOC Subject HeadingRacially mixed people – FictionRacially mixed people – Juvenile FictionRacially mixed children – Fiction
Subject Indices
Search Engine Keywords
Folksonomies
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Keyword Frenzy
Asian Americanmixed-race
hapaAsian Canadian
blasian
Eurasian
Multi-racial
biracial
Amerasian
orientalAfro-asian
Racially-mixed
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“When my mother met my father, she was a Japanese schoolgirl and he was an American sailor.”
-How My Parents Learned to Eat
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“She was both Vietnamese and American—but she felt like a nobody.”
-The Face in my Mirror cover