PAGE Blog Salon
Imagining America welcomes a new cohort of ten Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) fellows, who will be introducing themselves through Blog Salon stories. These fellows were selected for their sustained commitment to public engagement, and their unique approaches to engaged scholarship.
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Imagining Space for My Own Belonging
September 27, 2021
By Amy Hirayama
As a mixed-race Hapa kid, my Japaneseness often felt like an accessory instead of a fundamental part of my identity. In undergrad I tentatively claimed the identity of person of color, I railed against whiteness and I was a stew of insecurity…