Tag: Australia

  • 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 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…

  • JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology International Sociological Association Yokohama, Japan 2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19 Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 18:00 JST (Local Time) Room: 315 Erica Chito Childs, Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Mapping attitudes toward intermarriage—who is and who…

  • 5 Nations That Imported Europeans to Whiten The Population Atlanta Black Star 2014-03-10 Andre Moore After the trans-Atlantic slave trade was officially abolished toward the end of the 19th century, many whites felt threatened and feared free Blacks would become a menacing element in society. The elites spent a great dealing of time mulling over…

  • Quiting India: the Anglo-Indian Culture of Migration sites: a Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies Volume 4, Number 2 (2007) pages 32-56 DOI: 10.11157/sites-vol4iss2id73 Robyn Andrews, Lecturer, Social Anthropology Programme Massey University In my work with the Anglo-Indians in Calcutta I was reminded of Caplan’s (1995) comment that Anglo-Indians had a ‘culture of emigration’,…

  • The longstanding attempt to legislate Indigenous-Asian relations out of existence continues to cast its shadow today. Cathy Freeman is identified as Australia’s most famous Indigenous sportswoman, but she is also of Chinese descent.

  • Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia University of Western Australia Publishing March 2006 384 pages 250 x 170 mm Hardcover ISBN: 9781920694418 Regina Ganter, Professor, School of Humanities Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Awards Won – 2007 NSW Premier’s Awards (Community and Regional History Prize) Won – 2007 Ernest Scott History Prize Australian histories too…

  • White Without Soap [Review] Australian Womens Book Review Volume 23.1&2 (2011) pages 16-18 Jean Taylor Marguerita Stephens. White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835–1888, A Political Economy of Race. Melbourne: Melbourne University Custom Book Centre, 2010. As it says on the frontispiece, White Without Soap was a PhD thesis in the…

  • White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835-1888, A Political Economy of Race University of Melbourne Custom Book Centre 2010 318 pages Paperback ISBN: 0980759420, 9780980759426 Marguerita Stephens Explores the connections between nineteenth century imperial anthropology, racial ‘science’ and the imposition of colonising governance on the Aborigines of Port Phillip/Victoria between 1835 and…

  • White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835-1888, A Political Economy of Race University of Melbourne November 2003 328 pages Marguerita Stephens Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of History The thesis explores the connections between nineteenth century imperial anthropology, racial ‘science’, and…