Category: Oceania

  • Alfred Calma was 4 years old when the police snatched him from his mother, never to live with her again. Joyce Napurrula-Schroeder was not quite 2 when it happened to her. Luke Morcom was a newborn, barely a week on this earth.

  • A DNA test appears to have found a woman with 100 per cent Maori DNA.

  • The topic of mixed race, often overlooked by researchers because of its connection with discredited notions of ‘race’, has recently come into its own as a result of recognition of the unique and diverse experiences of those who challenge monolithic racial categories. Interest in DNA testing to determine the global scale of one’s ancestry is…

  • Partnered fathers bringing up their mixed-/multi-race children: an exploratory comparison of racial projects in Britain and New Zealand Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Published online: 2015-09-23 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2015.1091320 Rosalind Edwards, Professor of Sociology; Social Sciences Director of Research and Enterprise; Co-director, ESRC National Centre for Research Methods University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom…

  • Mixed Race Identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands Routledge 2016-12-20 246 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781138677708 Edited by: Farida Fozdar, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology University of Western Australia Kirsten McGavin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthropology) School of Social Science University of Queensland This volume offers a “southern,” Pacific Ocean perspective on the…

  • BETWEEN us, my husband and I have got Spanish, Filipino, Chinese, Slovakian, English, Scottish and Irish heritage. In appearance, he’s Asian and I’m caucasian. This is 2016 and so you wouldn’t even think that was even worth mentioning. But the fact is, reasonably often this affects the way other people treat us.

  • Patrick Wolfe: Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race New Books Network 2016-11-07 Lynette Russell, Professor Monash University, Australia Aziz Rana, Professor of Law Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Widely known for his pioneering work in the field of settler colonial studies, Patrick Wolfe advanced the theory that settler colonialism was, “a structure, not an event.”…

  • Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race Verso Books January 2016 306 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781781689172 Hardback ISBN: 9781781689165 Ebook ISBN: 9781781689196 Patrick Wolfe Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose…

  • Damien Shen: On the Fabric of the Ngarrindjeri Body Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia 400 Worrell Drive Peter Jefferson Place Charlottesville, Virginia 22911 September 2016 Damien Shen The only museum in the United States dedicated to the exhibition and study of Australian Aboriginal Art September 9 – December 18, 2016 On the…

  • Profile: Damien Shen The Adelaide Review Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2014-09-08 Jane Llewellyn Damien Shen While Damien Shen was on a two-week trip exploring Australia’s major galleries, it occurred to him that art is about telling stories. “Creating art is not just about technical ability, it’s about the story and it’s also about how you…