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  • New research explains why we see Barack Obama as “black” rather than “white”

    New research explains why we see Barack Obama as “black” rather than “white” News of Otago University of Otago, New Zealand 2010-11-25 Why do people tend to see biracial individuals such as Barack Obama as belonging to the minority group in their parentage rather than the majority one? According to new studies led by a…

  • Mai i ngā Ao e Rua–From Two Worlds: An investigation into the attitudes towards half castes in New Zealand

    Mai i ngā Ao e Rua–From Two Worlds: An investigation into the attitudes towards half castes in New Zealand University of Otago, Dunedin October 2006 91 pages Suzanne Boyes A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Honours), in Māori Studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin This dissertation investigates…

  • Gender, Work and Fears of a ‘Hybrid Race’ in 1920s New Zealand

    Gender, Work and Fears of a ‘Hybrid Race’ in 1920s New Zealand Gender & History Volume 19, Issue 3 (November 2007) pages 501–518 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00495.x Barbara Brookes, Professor of History Otago University, New Zealand The 1929 New Zealand Committee of Inquiry into the Employment of Māori on Market Gardens affords insight into the ways in…

  • Mixed Messages, Mixed Memories, Mixed Ethnicity: Mnemonic Heritage and Constructing Identity Through Mixed Parentage

    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…

  • Hybridity in the Third Space: Rethinking Bi-cultural Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    Hybridity in the Third Space: Rethinking Bi-cultural Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand Paper Presented to Te Oru Rangahau Maori Research and Development Conference 1998-07-07 through 1998-07-09 Massey University 7 pages Paul Meredith (Ngati Kaputuhi/Pakeha), Research Fellow Te Matahauariki Institute University of Waikato, New Zealand This brief paper joins a growing call for a reconceptualisation of bicultural…

  • Q&A With Researchers: Associate Professor Manying Ip

    Q&A With Researchers: Associate Professor Manying Ip asia:nz online Asia New Zealand Foundation Associate Professor Manying Ip Asia:NZ Trustee; Associate Professor of Chinese, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland Manying Ip came to New Zealand in 1974 from Hong Kong where her family lived for five generations. With her strong classical Chinese education at…

  • Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities (Book Review)

    Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities (Book Review) Sites: a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies University of Otago, New Zealand Volume 5, Number 2 (2008) pages 180-182 Kate Bagnall Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities, Manying Ip, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2008, 255pp. ISBN 978-1-86940-399-7 Manying Ip makes it clear from the outset that Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities…

  • ‘After all, I am partly Māori, partly Dalmatian, but first of all I am a New Zealander’

    ‘After all, I am partly Māori, partly Dalmatian, but first of all I am a New Zealander’ Ethnography Volume 6, Number 4 (December 2005) pages 517-542 DOI: 10.1177/1466138105062477 Senka Božić-Vrbančić The University of Auckland, New Zealand This article explores the complexity of the processes of identity construction for ‘mixed-race’ individuals in New Zealand. It focuses…

  • I Define My Own Identity: Pacific Articulations of ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’on the Internet

    I Define My Own Identity: Pacific Articulations of ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’on the Internet Ethnicities Vol. 3, No. 4 pp. 465-490 (2003) DOI: 10.1177/1468796803003004002 Marianne I. Franklin University of Amsterdam Most of the participants in the internet discussion forums, the Kava Bowl and the Kamehameha Roundtable, herald from the South Pacific islands of Tonga and Samoa.…