Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Mixed Race Memoir about the Hawai'i I Never Knew (Paperback)

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Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Mixed Race Memoir about the Hawai'i I Never Knew (Paperback)

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In her first work of literary nonfiction, Sharon H. Chang reflects critically on her Asian American, Mixed Race, and activist identity through the prism of returning to Hawai'i as a tourist. While visiting O'ahu and Kaua'i she considers childhood trips to Maua'i and the Big Island, pop culture and Hollywood movies of her youth that perpetuated Hawaiian stereotypes, and what it means that she has been stereotyped as a "Hawai'i Girl" her whole life though she has never lived on the islands. But what begins as a journey to unpack the ways she has been perceived and treated as a multiracial woman evolves into much more as Sharon learns the real impacts of colonization and corporate tourism on Hawai'i and uncovers what her Asian multiracial "mainland" identity actually looks like in relationship to the land, its Indigenous peoples, and the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement.

Product Details ISBN: 9781732484702
ISBN-10: 1732484708
Publisher: Rising Song Press
Publication Date: September 15th, 2018
Pages: 210
Language: English