Tag: Australia

  • 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,”…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Theorizing Interracial Families and Hybrid Identity: And Australian Perspective Educational Theory Volume 49, Issue 2 (June 1999) pages 223–249 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.1999.00223.x Carmen Luke, Emeritus Professor of Education University of Queensland Allan Luke, Research Professor Queensland University of Technology This essay is a theoretical exploration at how interracial families are sites for the development and articulation…

  • 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…

  • Mixed Messages, Mixed Memories, Mixed Ethnicity: Mnemonic Heritage and Constructing Identity Through Mixed Parentage New Zealand Sociology Volume 25, Number 1 (2010) pages 75-99 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology National University of Singapore This article explores the concept of mixed ethnic identity from a social memory-based perspective. Drawing on the…