1. A "Mixed" Bag: Searching for Hapa Characters in Youth Literature
2013 Research Showcase
Karla Lucht |

2. Defining “Hapa” Mixed Race “Hapa”
“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.

3. The Search LOC Subject Heading Subject Indices Search Engine Keywords
Racially mixed people – Fiction
Racially mixed people – Juvenile Fiction
Racially mixed children – Fiction
Subject Indices
Search Engine Keywords
Folksonomies

4. Keyword Frenzy hapa oriental mixed-race Multi-racial Asian American
Eurasian
mixed-race
Asian Canadian
hapa
blasian
Amerasian
Multi-racial
oriental
Racially-mixed
biracial
Afro-asian

5. “When my mother met my father, she was a Japanese schoolgirl and he was an American sailor.”
-How My Parents Learned to Eat

6. “She was both Vietnamese and American—but she felt like a nobody.”
-The Face in my Mirror cover