Mixed Race Studies

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  • Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-century Western Australia

    Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-century Western Australia University of Western Australia Publishing 2002-08-31 246 pages 207 x 139 mm ISBN: 978-1876268732 Penelope Hetherington Settlers, Servants and Slaves documents the exploitation of both Aboriginal and European children by the settler elite of nineteenth-century Western Australia. In a struggling colony desperately short…

  • Aboriginal Identity: Who is ‘Aboriginal’?

    Aboriginal Identity: Who is ‘Aboriginal’? Creative Spirits 2014-12-23 Jens Korff People who identify themselves as ‘Aboriginal’ range from dark-skinned, broad-nosed to blonde-haired, blue-eyed people. Aboriginal people define Aboriginality not by skin colour but by relationships. Light-skinned Aboriginal people often face challenges on their Aboriginal identity because of stereotyping. Ever since white people mixed with Aboriginal…

  • Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the British Empire [Paterson Review]

    Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the British Empire [Paterson Review] The British Scholar Society Book of The Month November 2014 Lachy Paterson University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Salesa, Damon Ieremia, Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). 308 pp. $US 45 (paperback). Race has always…

  • The fluidity of race

    This study is an examination of the American mestizos who lived in the Philippines from 1900 to 1955. No scholarly studies exist that analyze and historicize this group, but this is understandable, as the population of the American mestizos compared to the overall Filipino population is miniscule, never exceeding 20,000 individuals at any one time.

  • The corporate institution of mixed race: Indigeneity, discourse, and Orientalism in Aboriginal policy

    The corporate institution of mixed race: Indigeneity, discourse, and Orientalism in Aboriginal policy Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Volume 10, Number 1, 2014 17 pages Camie Augustus Department of History University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Contradiction in Aboriginal policy, especially the oscillation between assimilation and segregation, is often viewed as inconsequential. The suggestion has been…

  • How far have we come in our acceptance of mixed race people?

    What was once a shameful taboo with a deep, dark racist history is now the face of the modern world. But how far have we really come in our acceptance of mixed race people?

  • ONExSAMENESS: Dr Anita Heiss at TEDxBrisbane

    ONExSAMENESS: Dr Anita Heiss at TEDxBrisbane TEDx Talks 2013-10-25 Anita Heiss “It’s and I-dentity, not a YOU-dentity, stop telling me who I am!” Anita is a contemporary Australian author. She is a Wiradjuri woman. She is an Indigenous Literacy Day Ambassador and an Adjunct Professor with Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS amongst many other…

  • Am I Black Enough For You? By Anita Heiss [Milatovic Review]

    Am I Black Enough For You? By Anita Heiss [Milatovic Review] Transnational Literature Volume 6, Number 2, May 2014 3 pages Maja Milatovic University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Anita Heiss: Am I Black Enough for You? (Random House: Sydney, 2012) Anita Heiss’ Am I Black Enough for You? is a compelling and deeply affective…

  • Am I Black Enough For You?

    Winner of the Vic Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing.The story of an urban-based high achieving Aboriginal woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia.

  • Intervening in the racial imaginary: ‘mixed race’ and resistance in contemporary Australian Literature

    Intervening in the racial imaginary: ‘mixed race’ and resistance in contemporary Australian Literature University of Sydney 2014 243 pages Lyn Sue Dickens A thesis submitted in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences This thesis examines the extent to which three contemporary Australian novels can be…