Category: Oceania

  • InSide/OutSide Cultural Hybridity: Greenstone as Narrative Provocateur Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) International Education Research Conference 2003 AARE – NZARE 2003-11-30 through 2003-12-03 Auckland, New Zealand Tess Moeke-Maxwell, HRC Post Doctoral Research Fellow Department of Psychology University of Waikato This paper is a revised chapter located in my PhD thesis ‘Bringing Home The…

  • School of Cultural Inquiry Seminar Series – Narrating the Nowhere People: FB Vickers’ The Mirage and “Half-Caste” Aboriginals Australian National University A. D. Hope Conference Room (Building 14) 2011-06-06, 16:16-17:30 (Local TIme) Rich Pascal, Visiting Fellow School of Cultural Inquiry Australian National University By the turn of the Twentieth Century, and increasingly in the decades…

  • Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire Oxford University Press May 2011 320 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780199604159; ISBN10: 0199604150 Damon Ieremia Salesa, Associate Professor of History, American Culture, and Asian/Pacific Islander Studies University of Michigan The Victorians were fascinated with intersections between different races. Whether in sexual or domestic partnerships, in interracial children,…

  • Shady’s Back New Matilda Surry Hills NSW, Australia 2011-05-02 Jennifer Mills As Obama is called to prove his place of birth, Indigenous Australians are being asked to account for their origins too. Not black enough, not white enough: Jennifer Mills on public anxiety about biracial identity The release of Obama’s birth certificate by the White…

  • Playful ambiguities: racial and literary hybridity in the novels of Brian Castro University of Melbourne Université Toulouse-le Mirail 2010 Marilyne Brun PhD thesis, Arts – School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne and Université Toulouse-le Mirail. This thesis studies eight of the nine novels of Brian Castro, a contemporary Australian writer born in…

  • Deconstructing the Visual: The Diasporic Hybridity of Asian and Eurasian Female Images Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context Australian National University Issue 8, October 2002 45 paragraphs ISSN 1440 9151 Julie Matthews, Associate Professor and Director of Research Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia Introduction…

  • Golden shadows on a white land: An exploration of the lives of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia, 1855-1915 University of Sydney November 2006 364 pages Kate Bagnall A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This thesis explores the experiences of…

  • The Anglo-Indians: Aspirations for Whiteness and the Dilemma of Identity Counterpoints The Flinders University Online Journal of Interdisciplinary Conference Papers Volume 3, Number 1 (September 2003) Flinders University of South Australia Sheila Pais James Department of Sociology Flinders University of S.A. The Anglo-Indian, as a distinct ethnic identity, was the product of the racialised social…

  • Mothering Children of African Descent: Hopes, Fears and Strategies of White Birth Mothers The Journal of Pan African Studies Volume 2, Number 1 (November 2007) pages 62-76 Annie Stopford, Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Adjunct Research Fellow University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia Introduction It is often acknowledged that African identities are “complex, contested and contingent,”…

  • Resisting the Autobiographical Imperative: Anatole Broyard, Mixed Race and Silence HISTORY & POLITICS ON WEDNESDAY Research Seminars in Modern History & Politics Department of Modern History, Politics, and International Relations Macquarie University Sydney, Australia Room 127, Building W6A 2011-03-23, 12:00-13:15 AEST (Local Time) Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of History, Anthropology and Sociology Curtin University, Perth,…