George Kitahara Kich
George Kitahara Kich, Ph.D., was until recently a professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is a trial consultant for National Jury Project- West in Oakland.
Updated Fall 1998
Stories from This Author
Intermarriages and Hapas: An Overview - Part 2
May 12, 2007 • George Kitahara Kich , Rebecca Chiyoko King , Larry Hajime Shinagawa , Shizue Seigel
>> Part 1 Current Japanese American AttitudesIntermarriage has been a major, and controversial, topic of discussion within the Japanese American community over the years. The Pacific Citizen has consistently afforded a forum for some of this discussion (particularly the Holiday Issue, December 20-27, 1985). As more and more marriages across culture and race occurred, unresolved questions, opinions and prejudices surfaced. For many years, people who were of mixed race were seen as a loss to the community. Some people went …
Intermarriages and Hapas: An Overview - Part 1
May 11, 2007 • George Kitahara Kich , Rebecca Chiyoko King , Larry Hajime Shinagawa , Shizue Seigel
To be biracial and Japanese American means having many different labels from which to choose. For this historical overview, we will use “Hapa”, a term popularized by the Hapa Issues Forum, to mean people who have an Asian/Asian Pacific Islander parent and a parent of any other race. Our focus here is on those with a Japanese or a Japanese American parent. There is no single Hapa experience. Over the decades, Hapas have had widely different experiences based on individual …
