Category: Oceania

  • Ambiguities of Race: Science on the Reproductive Frontier of Australia and the Pacific Between the Wars Australian Historical Studies Volume 40, Issue 2, 2009 pages 143-160 DOI: 10.1080/10314610902849302 Warwick Anderson, Professor of History University of Sydney The attitudes of Australian biologists, anthropologists, and historians toward race mixing in the early-twentieth century should be viewed in…

  • Skin Colour: Does it Matter in New Zealand? Policy Quarterly (Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington) Volume 4, Number 1 (2008) pages 18-25 Paul Callister, Senior Research Fellow Institute of Policy Studies Victoria University of Wellington Introduction Pick up any official New Zealand publication which includes photographs representing the population and it is…

  • The historical politics of the New Zealand half-caste MAI Review Issue 3 (2008) Article 7 ISSN 1177-5904 11 pages Gina M. Colvin-McCluskey The archives of settler journalism provides us with a rich resource for engaging with some of the ‘raced’ discourses in circulation at the commencement of Britain’s colonial project in Āotearoa/New Zealand. From these…

  • ‘Queer magic’: Performing mixed-race on the Australian stage Contemporary Theatre Review Volume 16, Issue 2, 2006 pages 171-188 DOI: 10.1080/10486800600587138 Jacqueline Lo, Professor and Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies Austrailian National University Half-caste-woman, living a life apart. What did your story begin? Half-caste-woman, have you a secret heart Waiting for someone to…

  • Tune Your Engine – What is a New Zealander? Afternoons with Jim Mora Radio New Zealand National 2011-08-02, 03:10Z (15:10 NZT) Jim Mora, Presenter Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology National University of Singapore Zarine Rocha is a research Scholar in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.…

  • The Invisible Line Late Night Live ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio National 2011-06-13 Phillip Adams, Presenter Kris Short, Story Researcher and Producer Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law (and author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White) Vanderbilt University In America race has always been a potent…

  • Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home Wiley-Blackwell August 2005 304 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4051-0054-0 Papeback ISBN: 978-1-4051-0055-7 E-book ISBN: 978-1-4051-4130-7 Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography Queen Mary, University of London Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian…

  • Too White to be Regarded as Aborigines: An historical analysis of policies for the protection of Aborigines and the assimilation of Aborigines of mixed descent, and the role of Chief Protectors of Aborigines in the formulation and implementation of those policies, in Western Australia from 1898 to 1940. University of Notre Dame, Australia March 2008…

  • Living as Others in Japan Japanese Studies Association of Australia 2011 Biennial Conference Internationalising Japan: Sport, Culture and Education University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School 185 Pelham Street Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia 2011-07-04 through 2011-07-07 Wednesday, 2011-07-06, 11:00-12:30 AEDT (Local Time) Room 102 This panel will present two historical papers about individuals whose lives were…

  • Rights of passage – the coming of the ‘wild west’ Constructs of identity and their effects upon Indigenous people Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Health Volume 3, Issue 2 (2007), Indigenous Special Issue pages 39-45 Michael Red Shirt Semchison M.Ed.Studies; Gr.Cert.Ed.[HE] University of Queensland, Australia Introduction “We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful…