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Mia Nakaji Monnier • Aug. 26, 2010

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From Centerfield to Outer Space: Dan Kwong and the Secrets of a Multi-Cultural Performance Artist

With their long hair, multi-cultural ethnicity, and burgeoning artistic talents, Kip Fulbeck was oc…

Susan Osa • July 13, 2010

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Five Places That Can Make a Hapa Feel at Home in NYC

For the first six years of my life, I was convinced that the United States and Japan were literally…

Leah Nanako Winkler • July 6, 2010

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When There Was No "Hapa"

Throughout most of my life I’ve been THE Asian in the room, so to speak. My first grade schoo…

Paul Yamada • April 29, 2010

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The Asian American Literary Review

Poem: "The Leaf Book"

The Leaf BookIn the fall of third grade, when my teacherassigns the leaf-book project—collect…

April Naoko Heck • April 11, 2010

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My Parents -- An Introduction

We asked writer Paul Yamada about his background and what it was like for him growing up Hapa. He n…

Paul Yamada • March 31, 2010

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I Am Job

I was fourteen when I got my first job as a cashier at a Japanese convenience store in Lexington, K…

Leah Nanako Winkler • March 18, 2010

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Forgetting

I know that the last time I said goodbye to my Grandfather, he told me he loved me very much. But w…

Leah Nanako Winkler • March 5, 2010

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The Asian American Literary Review

Compartment Comportment - Part 3

>> Part 2It was not for lifestyle reasons that we weren’t married. Even today, I’…

Marie Mutsuki Mockett • Feb. 21, 2010

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A Day in a Life of a Not Quite New York Hapa Who Is Told She Looks Like Winnie Cooper From The Wonder Years

8:15 a.m. Alarm. Cotton mouth. The side effects of the sertaline (a Zoloft generic bec…

Leah Nanako Winkler • Feb. 15, 2010

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Maya Soetoro-Ng and the Gift of Belonging