Catchword: hapa

Filed under: English

Part of speech: adj.

Quotation: Faced with a similar question, 5-year-old Gabriella Grosz says, “I’m black and white.” And Cindie Nakashima, a 22-year-old graduate student who once called herself “half-Japanese and half-white,” now uses the Hawaiian word for “half,” saying simply, “I’m hapa.”

Article or Document Title:
“Mixed-Race Generation Emerges but Is Not Sure Where It Fits”

Author:
Felicity Barringer

Article, document, publication, web site:
New York Times

Date of publication:
Sept. 24, 1989

Page number:
22

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