Meaning "half" in Hawaiian, the word "hapa" first entered the Hawaiian language in the early 1800s. Originally used to describe individuals of mixed Hawaiian and European ancestry, hapa has since ...

More than a thousand portraits of people who identify as part Asian were shot, from the collarbone up, in front of a white background. They look naked — no jewelry, no expression, with each man, woman ...

Vancouver singer-songwriter Buckman Coe is three-quarters Chinese, one-quarter English, or simply 'hapa' — a Hawaiian term that is being increasingly used by people of mixed heritage to describe ...