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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Tag: New Zealand
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The Meeting Place: Māori and Pākehā Encounters, 1642–1840 Aukland University Press May/June 2012 320 pages 228 x 148 mm Paperback ISBN: 978 1 86940 594 6 Vincent O’Malley, Research Director HistoryWorks Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand How did Māori and Pākehā negotiate a meeting place? Would Māori observe the Sabbath? Should Pākehā fear the power of…
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God’s governor: George Grey and racial amalgamation in New Zealand 1845-1853 University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand August 2005 346 pages Susannah Grant A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand The legend of Governor Grey is a major feature of nineteenth century New Zealand…
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Pacific children of US servicemen for study Otago Daily Times University of Otago, New Zealand 2010-01-05 Allison Rudd World War 2 brought two million United States servicemen to New Zealand and many Pacific Islands. Inevitably, many formed liaisons with local women and fathered possibly several thousand children. What happened to those babies, and, more than…
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Drawing on the experiences of mixed-descent families, “In/visible Sight” examines the early history of cross-cultural encounter and colonisation in southern New Zealand.
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The historical politics of the New Zealand half-caste MAI Review Issue 3 (2008) Article 7 ISSN 1177-5904 11 pages Gina M. Colvin-McCluskey The archives of settler journalism provides us with a rich resource for engaging with some of the ‘raced’ discourses in circulation at the commencement of Britain’s colonial project in Āotearoa/New Zealand. From these…
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Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire Oxford University Press May 2011 320 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780199604159; ISBN10: 0199604150 Damon Ieremia Salesa, Associate Professor of History, American Culture, and Asian/Pacific Islander Studies University of Michigan The Victorians were fascinated with intersections between different races. Whether in sexual or domestic partnerships, in interracial children,…
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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…