Hapa Issues Forum records
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UC Berkeley. Ethnic Studies Library
2015
University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, 30 Stephens Hall #2630
Berkeley, California 94720-2360
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Title: Hapa Issues Forum records
Dates: 1992-2007
Collection Number: AAS ARC 2006/2
Creator/Collector:
Hapa Issues Forum
Extent: 10 cartons, 4 boxes, 3 oversize folders, 1 tube (13.55 linear feet)
Repository:
UC Berkeley. Ethnic Studies Library
Berkeley, California 94720-2360
Abstract: The collection contains Hapa Issues Forum’s history, mission, organization information, correspondence, meeting and retreat
materials. The majority of the collection includes annual conference and related conference materials consisting of programs,
schedules, committee meeting notes, correspondence, presentation papers, announcements, budget proposals, evaluation forms,
sign-up sheets, newspaper articles, posters, audio/visual cassettes, photographs, and notes. Also includes organization sponsored
symposia and events, projects, funding resources, membership records, awards publicity, publications, and operations guidelines.
There are resources on other community organizations and reference files relating to multiracial people and issues
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
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of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions,
privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond
that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively
with the user.
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Submitted in writing to the curator, Ethnic Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Hapa Issues Forum records. UC Berkeley. Ethnic Studies Library
The Hapa Issues Forum records were given to the Ethnic Studies Library by Anthony Yuen on December 22, 2006. Additions were
made by Steven Ropp in 2008.
Biography/Administrative History
Hapa Issues Forum (HIF), a non-profit community organization, was founded in 1992 by three University of California, Berkeley
students; Eric Akira Tate, Steven Masami Ropp, and Greg Mayeda. It was formed to address the mixed race Asian experience in
America by providing a voice for people of partial Asian or Pacific Islander ancestry, creating a nonexclusive multiracial
community, providing a forum for reasoned dialogue, working with other community organizations to broaden awareness of Hapas,
and challenging this nation’s rigid notion of race. After fifteen years of community activities and achievements and continually
gaining numbers in the Asian multiracial population, the organization disbanded because of the correlating increase in divergent
interests and goals.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains Hapa Issues Forum’s history, mission, organization information, correspondence, meeting and retreat
materials. The majority of the collection includes annual conference and related conference materials consisting of programs,
schedules, committee meeting notes, correspondence, presentation papers, announcements, budget proposals, evaluation forms,
sign-up sheets, newspaper articles, posters, audio/visual cassettes, photographs, and notes. Also includes organization sponsored
symposia and events, projects, funding resources, membership records, awards publicity, publications, and operations guidelines.
There are resources on other community organizations and reference files relating to multiracial people and issues
Racially mixed people - California - Berkeley.
Asian Americans - California - Berkeley.
College students - California - Berkeley - Attitudes.
College students - Societies, etc.
Asian Americans - Societies, etc.
University of California, Berkeley.