Tag: Australia

  • Mixing Race: The Kong Sing Brothers and Australian Sport Australian Historical Studies Volume 39, Issue 3 (2008) pages 338-355 DOI: 10.1080/10314610802263323 Gary Osmond, Lecturer School of Human Movement Studies University of Queensland Marie-Louise McDermott Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia Little research exists on the participation of Chinese in Australian sport in the colonial or…

  • Lyn Dickens relates her experiences of being a young Eurasian woman in Australia

  • Love Against the Law: The autobiographies of Tex and Nelly Camfoo Aboriginal Studies Press 2000 120 pages 240×170 mm ISBN 9780855753481 Tex Camfoo Nelly Camfoo Edited by: Gillian Cowlishaw During his life, Tex Camfoo has been classified as Aboriginal, half-caste and European. As a half-caste he could not legally associate with or marry an Aboriginal…

  • Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in ‘settled’ Australia Aboriginal Studies Press 1988; Reprinted 1991 288 pages 240×170 mm ISBN: 9780855751852 Edited by: Ian Keen, Visiting Fellow School of Archaeology and Anthropology College of Arts and Social Sciences The Australian National University This volume brings together results of research by anthropologists on the social life of people…

  • Mixed-Blood Marriage in North-Western New South Wales: A Survey of the Marital Conditions of 264 Aboriginal and Mixed-Blood Women Oceania Volume 22, Number 2 (December 1951) pages 116-129 Marie Reay This survey is based on family records of over 300 aboriginal and mixed-blood women in north-western New South Wales, collected during 1945-6. The records were…

  • Whiteness and the city: Australians of Anglo-Indian heritage in suburban Melbourne South Asian Diaspora Volume 4, Issue 2, May 2012 pages 123-137 DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2012.675721 Michele Lobo, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow Arts and Education Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Leslie Morgan School of Education Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia This paper uses an auto-ethnographic approach to map…

  • Indigenous Giles stands by Abbott NT News Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia 2012-11-15 Nigel Adlam TERRITORY indigenous politician Adam Giles has refused to condemn Tony Abbott. Mr Abbott said Alison Anderson was an “authentic representative” of ancient Central Australian culture but mixed-race MP Ken Wyatt was “not a man of culture”.   Mr Giles also refused…

  • “Representing” Anglo-Indians: A Genealogical Study University of Melbourne 1999 350 pages Glenn D’Cruz, Senior Lecturer School of Communication and Creative Arts Deakin University, Australia Thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of English with Cultural Studies The ‘mixed-race’ Anglo-Indian (Eurasian) community was born of the European…

  • A diverged family converges at Harvard Law Havard Law School News 2012-10-10 Audrey Kunycky A chance encounter, a discovery of kin on opposite sides of the world It wasn’t inevitable that Harvard Law School graduate students Erum Khalid Sattar and Rebecca Zaman would meet so soon, or even at all. Sattar has been at the…

  • Children of the Occupation NewSouth Publishing 2012-07-01 Walter Hamilton, Journalist and Author Towards the end of an eventful life, George Budworth, who served with the Australian Army in Japan after the war, wrote an account describing the first time he saw his son, Peter. It was not in a hospital maternity ward but on the…