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  • JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage

    JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology International Sociological Association Yokohama, Japan 2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19 Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 18:00 JST (Local Time) Room: 315 Erica Chito Childs, Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Mapping attitudes toward intermarriage—who is and who…

  • Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific

    Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society June 2014 (2014-06-02) Maile Arvin, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Riverside I confess: I avoided watching the 2011 Oscar award-winning movie The Descendants (directed by the acclaimed Alexander Payne of Sideways and Nebraska, starring George Clooney) for…

  • Seminar on Mixed Race in Fiji: The Part Indian Fijians

    Seminar on Mixed Race in Fiji: The Part Indian Fijians 2014-04-05 Rolando Cocom School of Social Science The University of the South Pacific This is a research design of an explorative study to be conducted in Fiji on ‘mixed race’ persons of iTaukei and Indo-Fijian parentage. The study seeks to render an interpretive understanding of…

  • Bung Mokhtar: Mixed-race Malaysians will benefit from racial voting

    Bung Mokhtar: Mixed-race Malaysians will benefit from racial voting Malay Mail Online Petaling Jaya, Malaysia 2014-04-01 Zurairi AR UALA LUMPUR, Apr 1 — Malaysians with mixed-race parentage will benefit the most from voting along racial lines as they will have more than one representative, Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin said today. The Barisan Nasional…

  • ‘Stretching out the categories’: Chinese/European narratives of mixedness, belonging and home in Singapore

    ‘Stretching out the categories’: Chinese/European narratives of mixedness, belonging and home in Singapore Ethnicities Volume 14, Number 2 (April 2014) pages 279-302 DOI: 10.1177/1468796813505554 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore Racial categorization is important in everyday interactions and state organization in Singapore. Increasingly, the idea of ‘mixed race’ and…

  • Being “Nesian”: Pacific Islander Identity in Australia

    Being “Nesian”: Pacific Islander Identity in Australia The Contemporary Pacific Volume 26, Number 1, 2014 pages 126-154 DOI: 10.1353/cp.2014.0013 Kirsten McGavin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology University of Queensland, Australia Pacific Islanders in Australia use the terms “Islander” and “Pacific Islander” in many ways and in different circumstances to define themselves and others. Through invoking…

  • Betwixt, Between and Beyond: Racial formation and “mixed race” identities in New Zealand and Singapore

    Betwixt, Between and Beyond: Racial formation and “mixed race” identities in New Zealand and Singapore National University of Singapore 2013 345 pages Zarine Lia Rocha A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY “Mixed race” identities are increasingly important for academics and policy makers around the world. In many multicultural…

  • Pacifically Possessed: Scientific Production and Native Hawaiian Critique of the “Almost White” Polynesian Race

    Pacifically Possessed: Scientific Production and Native Hawaiian Critique of the “Almost White” Polynesian Race University of California, San Diego 2013 320 pages Maile Renee Arvin A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Ethnic Studies This dissertation analyzes how scientific knowledge has represented the Polynesian race as…

  • Hawai’i’s Interracial History, Culture, and Tradition: Construction and Deconstruction (Sawyer Seminar VIII)

    Hawai’i’s Interracial History, Culture, and Tradition: Construction and Deconstruction (Sawyer Seminar VIII) University of Southern California, University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2014-02-28, 09:00-13:00 PST (Local Time) How are islands connectors of flows of peoples and culture? What types of constructions and deconstructions of race and identity have influenced…

  • A Show of Justice: Racial ‘Amalgamation’ in Nineteenth Century New Zealand

    A Show of Justice: Racial ‘Amalgamation’ in Nineteenth Century New Zealand Auckland University Press 1974 400 pages 230 x 150 mm, illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9781869401214 Alan Ward First published in 1974, A Show of Justice remains the essential and definitive text on official policies towards the Māori people in the nineteenth century. Professor Ward shows…