{"id":335,"date":"2015-10-01T22:56:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T22:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/?p=335"},"modified":"2015-10-02T05:16:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T05:16:41","slug":"ariana-minamoto-the-black-miss-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/10\/01\/ariana-minamoto-the-black-miss-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Miyamoto: the Black Miss Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In March 2015\u00a0Ariana Miyamoto became the first half-black Japanese woman to be named Miss Japan. This video feature<\/a> by Al Jazeera America explores the varied reactions to a mixed-race woman, or what the Japanese refer to as a “hafu”, \u00a0being crowned Miss Japan.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think the equivalent word for ‘hafu’ exists overseas; but in Japan, you need that word to explain who you are.” — Ariana Miyamoto<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Furthermore, the video communicates to viewers the often misused and mislead power of assigning meaning to bodies and outward appearances as opposed to acknowledging individuals’ ethnicities or nationalities\u00a0.<\/p>\n

“My appearance isn’t Asian, but I believe I’m very much Japanese on the inside.” —\u00a0Ariana Miyamoto<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This piece connects well with\u00a0our discussion of what it means to talk about race, how we use or misuse the term ‘race’ to assign meaning, and the significance of the language we use in race-talk.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/watch\/shows\/live-news\/2015\/9\/miss-japan-challenges-the-norm.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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In March 2015\u00a0Ariana Miyamoto became the first half-black Japanese woman to be named Miss Japan. This video feature by Al Jazeera America explores the varied reactions to a mixed-race woman, or what the Japanese refer to as a “hafu”, \u00a0being crowned Miss Japan. “I don’t think the equivalent word for ‘hafu’ exists overseas; but in … Continue reading Ariana Miyamoto: the Black Miss Japan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23,7,46,77,34,48,29,18,63,62,57,4,65,51,74],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-video","tag-asian-american","tag-biology","tag-culture","tag-discrimination","tag-ethnicity","tag-genetics","tag-interracial-relationships","tag-interview","tag-mixed-race","tag-multiracial-family","tag-poc","tag-race","tag-racial-identity","tag-racism","tag-stereotypes","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}