Category: Oceania

  • ‘Improving’ the Māori: Counting the Ideology of Intermarriage New Zealand Journal of History Volume 34, Number 1 (2000) pages 80-97 Kate Riddell Waitangi Tribunal, Wellington IN 1996 THE CENSUS gave a total of 3,681,546 New Zealanders, of whom 524,031 were self-described as Māori or of Māori descent — thus, around 14%. The 1896 census gave…

  • White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835-1888, A Political Economy of Race University of Melbourne November 2003 328 pages Marguerita Stephens Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of History The thesis explores the connections between nineteenth century imperial anthropology, racial ‘science’, and…

  • Half-castes between the Wars: Colonial Categories in New Zealand and Samoa New Zealand Journal of History Volume 34, Number 1 (2000) pages 98-116 Tocolcsulusulu D. Salesa Oriel College, University of Oxford BY THE 1930s ‘half-castes‘ seemed a near-universal product of colonialism. They were a natural outcome of the human activity of procreation, and not a…

  • Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750–1940 Australian National University Press October 2008 372 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1921313994; ISBN-13: 978-1921313998 Online ISBN: 9781921536007 Edited by: Bronwen Douglas, Senior Fellow in Pacific and Asian History The Australian National University Chris Ballard, Fellow in Pacific and Asian History The Australian National University From the 18th…

  • Racial Crossings: Race, intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire by Damon Ieremia Salesa (review) Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2013 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2013.0015 Sarah Carter, Professor of History University of Alberta Damon Ieremia Salesa, Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)…

  • Mixing Race: The Kong Sing Brothers and Australian Sport Australian Historical Studies Volume 39, Issue 3 (2008) pages 338-355 DOI: 10.1080/10314610802263323 Gary Osmond, Lecturer School of Human Movement Studies University of Queensland Marie-Louise McDermott Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia Little research exists on the participation of Chinese in Australian sport in the colonial or…

  • Identity for mixed-race kids? ‘Eurasian’ already exists The Straits Times Singapore Forum Letters 2013-03-30 Michael Ang York Poon I am baffled by Mr Peter Wadeley’s letter (“S’porean identity must include mixed-race kids“; March 16). What he is calling for already exists – that is, Eurasians, who are one of Singapore’s four main racial groups. In…

  • Hardships for Filipino mixed-race children Al Jazeera 2013-02-26 Jamela Alindogan Thousands of mixed-race children grow up without their fathers in the Philippines. Most of them are of Korean or American descent. Many often end up living on the streets without any support. Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan reports from Manila.

  • Lyn Dickens relates her experiences of being a young Eurasian woman in Australia

  • (Mixed) Racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand: framing biculturalism and ‘mixed race’ through categorisation Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online Volume 7, Issue 1, (May 2012) DOI: 10.1080/1177083X.2012.670650 pages 1-13 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore This paper explores racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the impacts of…