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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Notes on physical anthropology of Australian aborigines and black-white hybrids American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 8, Issue 1 (January/March 1925) pages 73–94 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330080105 Charles B. Davenport, Director Department of Experimental Evolution (Carnegie Institution of Washington) Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York Introduction In September 1914, after the meetings of the British Association…
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A shameful history: Nowhere People: How International Race Thinking Shaped Australia’s Identity [Book Review] The Lancet Volume 366, Issue 9495 (October 2005) page 1428 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67586 Caroline de Costa, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Director of the Clinical School James Cook University School of Medicine, Cairns Campus, North Queensland, Australia Nowhere People: How International Race…
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Nowhere People Penguin Books Australia January 2005 300 pages Paperback ISBN-13:9780143001911 Henry Reynolds, Emeritus Associate Professor of History and Politics James Cook University, Australia ‘That’s how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa child and became a nowhere person… Motherless, cultureless and stuck in a government institution because my…
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Thoroughly Modern Mulatta: Rethinking “Old World” Stereotypes in a “New World” Setting Biography Volume 28, Number 1 (Winter 2005) pages 104-116 E-ISSN: 1529-1456, Print ISSN: 0162-4962 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2005.0034 Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of Sociology Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia This paper examines the role of racial stereotypes in the life narratives of several women of…
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Transgressing Boundaries: A History of the Mixed Descent Families of Maitapapa, Taieri, 1830-1940 University of Canterbury, New Zealand 2004 393 pages Angela Wanhalla, Lecturer in History University of Otago, New Zealand A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History at the University of Canterbury This thesis…
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The Eurasians of Indonesia: A Problem and Challenge in Colonial History Journal of Southeast Asian History Volume 9, Issue 2 (1968) pages 191-207 DOI: 10.1017/S021778110000466X Paul W. van der Veur, Professor of History Australian National University Persons of mixed European and Asian parentage appeared in the Indonesian archipelago shortly after the arrival of the first…
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Studies in Melanin Pigmentation of the Skin of Racial Crosses in Port Moresby Oceania Volume 33, Number. 4 (June, 1963) pages 287-292 R. J. Walsh New South Wales Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Sydney, Australia A. V. G. Price Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New Guinea The colour of the skin in…
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Turning Aboriginal—Historical Bents borderlands: e-journal Volume 7, Number 2 (2008) pages 1-19 Regina Ganter, Associate Professor, School of Humanities Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Under the pressures of binary identity politics the search for Aboriginal identity among people of mixed descent has become a Russian roulette that may end up with a public hanging where those…