Mixed Race Studies

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  • The link between “tourism” and “settler colonialism” in Hawai’i

    The link between “tourism” and “settler colonialism” in Hawai’i Matador Network 2015-07-29 Bani Amor Maile Arvin is a Native Hawaiian feminist scholar who writes about Native feminist theories, settler colonialism, decolonization, and race and science in Hawai‘i and the broader Pacific. She is currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnic Studies at…

  • Mixed-race marriages a reflection of multicultural Blacktown

    Mixed-race marriages a reflection of multicultural Blacktown The Daily Telegraph Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia 2015-12-01 Nick Houghton Joanne Vella, Editor Blacktown Advocate Quakers Hill one of Blacktown’s most livable suburbs Iranian migrant calls ‘multicultural tolerant’ Australia home WHEN Stephen Zahra went on a four-week holiday to Vietnam in 2006, little did he know…

  • Race and the Modern Exotic: Three ‘Australian’ Women on Global Display

    Annette Kellerman, Rose Quong and Merle Oberon were internationally successful ‘Australian’ performers of the first half of the twentieth century. Kellerman was a swimmer, diver, lecturer, and silent-film star, Quong an actor, lecturer and writer who forged a career in London and New York, and Oberon one of the most celebrated film stars of the…

  • The legend of Merle

    She was one of the most glamorous stars of the 1930s and ’40s. A screen siren with smouldering looks, exotic features and almond-shaped eyes. Merle Oberon was described as graceful and hauntingly beautiful.

  • “Mixed Race” Identities in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences from Singapore and New Zealand

    “Mixed race” is becoming an important area for research, and there is a growing body of work in the North American and British contexts. However, understandings and experiences of “mixed race” across different countries and regions are not often explored in significant depth. New Zealand and Singapore provide important contexts for investigation, as two multicultural,…

  • Ronnie: Tasmanian Songman

    Ronnie: Tasmanian Songman Magabala Books January 2009 164 pages 240 x 165 Paperback ISBN: 9781921248108 Helen Gee and Ronnie Summers Musician, storyteller and craftsman, Ronnie Summers recalls the freedom of growing up on Cape Barren Island and how the island’s music shaped his life. He draws on a childhood working the muttonbird islands, a ‘kangaroo…

  • Racism as a Determinant of Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Racism as a Determinant of Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis PLOS ONE 2015-09-23 48 pages DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138511 Yin Paradies, Professor Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization, Faculty of Arts and Education Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Jehonathan Ben Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization, Faculty of Arts and Education Deakin University, Melbourne,…

  • The Awesome Unordinary: Meet Marawa, The Celebrity Hula-Hooper

    The Awesome Unordinary: Meet Marawa, The Celebrity Hula-Hooper Chic Rebellion 2015-09-22 Jazzi Johnson As children, we’re told to go after our dreams and not to let anyone deter us from whatever it may be… Well, can you imagine being 18 years old and telling your parents that you dream of hula-hooping for a living? That’s…

  • Is Hawaii a Racial Paradise?

    Races, Ethnicities, and Cultures Mix More Freely Than Elsewhere in the U.S., But There Are Limits to the Aloha Spirit

  • Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story by Walter Hamilton (review)

    Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story by Walter Hamilton (review) The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 2014 pages 565-567 DOI: 10.1353/hcy.2014.0047 Owen Griffiths Hamilton, Walter, Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story (Sydney: NewSouth Books, 2012) What if you felt like you didn’t belong to the…