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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Category: Oceania
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God’s governor: George Grey and racial amalgamation in New Zealand 1845-1853 University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand August 2005 346 pages Susannah Grant A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand The legend of Governor Grey is a major feature of nineteenth century New Zealand…
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The Presumption of Indigeneity: Colonial Administration, the ‘Community of Race’ and the Category of Indigène in New Caledonia, 1887–1946 The Journal of Pacific History Published online: 2012-06-29 pages 1-20 DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2012.688183 Adrian Muckle, Lecturer in History Victoria University of Wellington From 1887 to 1946, the administrative apparatus known as the indigénat provided French administrators in…
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Anglo-Indian Nostalgia: Longing for India as Homeland Rhizomes Postgraduate Conference Rhizomes: Re-visioning Boundaries Conference The School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 2006-02-24 through 2006-02-25 Alzena D’Costa Curtin University of Technology This paper argues that the ‘nostalgia’ that the Anglo-Indian community exhibits in the telling of its (hi)stories can…
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An Estimate of Assimilation Rate of Mixed-Blood Aborigines in New South Wales Oceania Volume 32, Number 3 (March, 1962) pages 187-190 J. Le Gay Brereton Some anthropologists have suggested that the Aboriginal population of New South Wales (very largely mixed-bloods) will prefer integration to assimilation. It is therefore important to obtain some estimate of the…
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Ethnographic Pictorialism: Caroline Gurrey’s Hawaiian Types at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition History of Photography Volume 36, Issue 2 (May 2012) pages 172-183 DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2012.654943 Heather Waldroup, Associate Professor of Art History Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina In 1909, a series of photographs by Honolulu portraitist Caroline Gurrey was exhibited at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in…
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‘Beautiful Hybrids’: Caroline Gurrey’s Photographs of Hawai‘i’s Mixed-race Children History of Photography Volume 36, Issue 2 (May 2012) pages 184-198 DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2012.654947 Anne Maxwell, Associate Professor of English University of Melbourne, Australia In the early years of the twentieth century the Hawaiian-based American photographer Caroline Gurrey produced a much praised set of the photographs of…
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Not Quite/ Just the Same/ Different: the Construction of Identity in Vietnamese War Orphans Adopted by White Parents University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 2003 180 pages Indigo Williams Master of Arts by Thesis Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Global diasporas caused by wars carry many streams of people—in the 1970s one of these streams…
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Finding culture in ‘poetic’ structures: The case of a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese/New Zealander Journal of Multicultural Discourses Online Before Print: 2012-01-18 19 pages DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2011.610507 Masataka Yamaguchi, Professor of Japanese Studies University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand In this article, I analyze discourse taken from my interviews with a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese/New Zealander in which he represents…
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Results of Inbreeding on Norfolk Island Science Magazine Volume 65, Number 1693 (1927-06-10) page x DOI: 10.1126/science.65.1693.0x-s Providing the original stock is sound, inbreeding among human beings results in no deterioration, physical or mental. Nor does mixture of widely differing races produce an inferior type. Such are the conclusions of Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, ethnologist…
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Migration and Race Mixture from the Genetic Angle The Eugenics Review Volume 51, Number 2 (July 1959) pages 93-97 Sir Macfarlane Burnet, O.M., F.R.S., Director Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research This paper was prepared at the request of the Department of Immigration for discussion by delegates at the Australian Citizenship Convention. The…