hapa
adj.— «At Stanford last year, a group of women who are Asian and white and were in classes together formed HAPA, the Half Asian People’s Association. “Hapa” is Hawaiian for half Asian.» —“Students Of Mixed Race Form Bond” by Elizabeth Atkins St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Mo.) June 25, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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