Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Being Anglo-Indian: Practices and Stories from Calcutta Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand 2005 263 pages Robyn Andrews, Lecturer, Social Anthropology Programme Massey University A thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology at Massey University This thesis is an ethnography of Anglo-Indians in Calcutta. All…
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Children of the Occupation NewSouth Publishing 2012-07-01 Walter Hamilton, Journalist and Author Towards the end of an eventful life, George Budworth, who served with the Australian Army in Japan after the war, wrote an account describing the first time he saw his son, Peter. It was not in a hospital maternity ward but on the…
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Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story NewSouth Books (American Edition coming soon from Rutgers University Press) July 2012 352 pages 234 x 153mm Paperback ISBN: 9781742233314 Walter Hamilton, Journalist and Author This is a beautifully written, deeply moving and well-researched account of the lives of mixed-race children of occupied Japan. The author artfully blends…
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Neville’s and Cook’s solution to the half-caste problem was biological absorption, colloquially called ‘breeding out the colour’. This entailed directing persons of mixed descent into marital unions with white people, so that after several generations of interbreeding all outward signs of Aboriginal ancestry would disappear. It held an incongruent array of aims and means. Absorption…
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The Aborigines Act, 1911 [Australia] 1911-12-07 Number 1048 Source: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies An Act to make provision for the better Protection and Control of the Aboriginal and Half-caste Inhabitants of the State of South Australia. This Act may be cited as ‘‘ The Aborigines Act, 1911.” The Ordinance No.…
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Born a Half-Caste Aboriginal Studies Press 1990 (revised edition) 78 pages 210 x1 50mm, b/w illus Paperback ISBN: 9780855751609 Margaret (Marnie) Kennedy (1919–1985) Marnie Kennedy was born in 1919 ‘on the bank of Coppermine Creek’. Her story takes us from her birthplace in Western Queensland, to Palm Island where she grew up ‘under the Act’,…
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Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation Aboriginal Studies Press September 2011 288 pages 230 x 152mm; b/w Illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780855757793 Russell McGregor, Associate Professor of History James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of…
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The Meeting Place: Māori and Pākehā Encounters, 1642–1840 Aukland University Press May/June 2012 320 pages 228 x 148 mm Paperback ISBN: 978 1 86940 594 6 Vincent O’Malley, Research Director HistoryWorks Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand How did Māori and Pākehā negotiate a meeting place? Would Māori observe the Sabbath? Should Pākehā fear the power of…
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Double Native: A moving memoir about living across two cultures University of Queensland Press 2012-01-03 304 pages ISBN: 978 0 7022 3917 5 Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung Growing up ‘on country’ on the west coast of Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula in the 1970s and ’80s, Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung had an idyllic traditional life. At the age…
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The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia Melbourne University Publishing March 2002 364 pages 235 x 154 mm, 25 b/w illustrations & 4 maps Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-522-84989-9 Warwick Anderson, Research Professor of History University of Sydney Winner of the Australian Historical Association W.K. Hancock Prize 2004 In this lucid and original…