ASA 115 001
Week 2
This week focuses on "Race Translators, Traitors, Cultural Intermediaries, and Mixed Race Makers," but for the topic of this blog post, I will focus more so on the themes found in Kip Fulbeck's "Part Asian, 100% Hapa: A Retrospective," which highlights the journeys of five Hapas during a project in which the author has taken their photos ten years prior and asks them to reflect now. What stuck out the most was on page 7, where Teresa talked about how her involvement in the project has allowed her to provide healing for both herself and audience members. There is a comment on how history had been made within Harper's section when her mother Sheri talks about her experience with race many years ago, and it shows the evolution that has come with time. We often talk about how the past haunts us even in the present, which is no doubt true in many ways, but it is also a site of education for many that are brave enough to look back and move forward.
Not only do we see people of color in the media, but we see representation among Hapa folks. For example, the movie, "The Sun Is Also a Star" includes two mixed raced leads, and it is written by a person of color. This is something still very much new to Hollywood, but its normalization may allow for more progress and evolution as noticed by Shane, Sheri, and other of the Hapa folks from Fulbeck's project.
Included is the movie poster:
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