Part Asian 100% Hapa

On the Newshour tonight, they had a video essay about multiraciality in America, and it centered on an exhibit called The Hapa Project at the de Saisset museum at Santa Clara University. The exhibit features portaits of hapas (multiracial, part-Asian people) along with each subject's handwritten response to the question "What are you?"

What a magnificent idea! I can tell you first hand that growing up straddling the line between races is very confusing, alienating, and lonely in a way, feeling so unlike everyone else around you. Looking through the samples in the exhibit, it makes me so proud to see the faces of my beautiful brothers and sisters, and read the myriad ways they answer that perplexing question. If I were to answer that question right now, I'd say this:

What I am changes from day to day. Sometimes I am a confused and anxious introvert, wondering where he belongs. Other times, I am the melting pot, the embodiment of diversity, the essence of a unified world. But most of the time, somewhere in between.

I applaud artist/creator Kip Fulbeck for conceiving such a brilliant idea! There's a book too. I'm buying it. I'm curious to see each and every page!