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  • Respecting and Celebrating Black Writing and Storytelling presented by Dr Anita Heiss

    Respecting and Celebrating Black Writing and Storytelling presented by Dr Anita Heiss Flinders University 182 Victoria Square Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2015-07-09, 18:00-19:00 ACDT (Local Time) Anita Heiss A NAIDOC Week event co-hosted by Yunggorendi First Nations Centre with the School of Humanities and Creative Arts Anita will address staff, students and members of the…

  • Mixed Race in Australia and the region

    Mixed Race in Australia and the region University of Western Australia (UWA) 2015-06-08 through 2015-06-10 Conveners: Farida Fozdar People of ‘mixed race’ are often seen as marginal individuals managing cultural and psychological tensions, or alternatively valorised as the vanguard of an integrated, post-racial, cosmopolitan world (Edwards et al. 2012). Such dichotomies ignore the complex lived…

  • Being ‘Mixed Race’: Kira Lea Dargin and Annina Chirade

    Having come through some difficult times as a teenager Kira now happily identifies with both of her cultural backgrounds. Annina says that when you are ‘mixed-race’ people make assumptions about your identity and consider it to be “up for debate”, but she is clear that “whiteness is not something I’m a part of.”

  • The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege

    The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege Ashgate May 2015 186 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4724-5307-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4724-5308-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-5309-9 Elaine Marie Carbonell Laforteza, Lecturer in Cultural Studies Macquarie University, Australia Investigating the emergence of a specific mestiza/mestizo whiteness that facilitates relations between the Philippines…

  • 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…

  • 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…