Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story NewSouth Books (American Edition coming soon from Rutgers University Press) July 2012 352 pages 234 x 153mm Paperback ISBN: 9781742233314 Walter Hamilton, Journalist and Author This is a beautifully written, deeply moving and well-researched account of the lives of mixed-race children of occupied Japan. The author artfully blends…
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The Aborigines Act, 1911 [Australia] 1911-12-07 Number 1048 Source: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies An Act to make provision for the better Protection and Control of the Aboriginal and Half-caste Inhabitants of the State of South Australia. This Act may be cited as ‘‘ The Aborigines Act, 1911.” The Ordinance No.…
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Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation Aboriginal Studies Press September 2011 288 pages 230 x 152mm; b/w Illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780855757793 Russell McGregor, Associate Professor of History James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of…
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Double Native: A moving memoir about living across two cultures University of Queensland Press 2012-01-03 304 pages ISBN: 978 0 7022 3917 5 Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung Growing up ‘on country’ on the west coast of Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula in the 1970s and ’80s, Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung had an idyllic traditional life. At the age…
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The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia Melbourne University Publishing March 2002 364 pages 235 x 154 mm, 25 b/w illustrations & 4 maps Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-522-84989-9 Warwick Anderson, Research Professor of History University of Sydney Winner of the Australian Historical Association W.K. Hancock Prize 2004 In this lucid and original…
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An Estimate of Assimilation Rate of Mixed-Blood Aborigines in New South Wales Oceania Volume 32, Number 3 (March, 1962) pages 187-190 J. Le Gay Brereton Some anthropologists have suggested that the Aboriginal population of New South Wales (very largely mixed-bloods) will prefer integration to assimilation. It is therefore important to obtain some estimate of the…
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Migration and Race Mixture from the Genetic Angle The Eugenics Review Volume 51, Number 2 (July 1959) pages 93-97 Sir Macfarlane Burnet, O.M., F.R.S., Director Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research This paper was prepared at the request of the Department of Immigration for discussion by delegates at the Australian Citizenship Convention. The…
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Racial Ambiguity and Whiteness in Brian Castro’s Drift Journal of the European Association of Studies on Australia Volume 2, Number 2, 2009 pages 113-126 ISSN 2013-6897 Marilyne Brun, Lecturer in Postcolonia Studies Université Nancy 2 This article focuses on Drift, the fifth novel of contemporary Australian writer, Brian Castro, and concentrates on the ambiguous racial…
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Dreams and Nightmares of a White Australia: Representing Aboriginal Assimilation in the Mid-twentieth Century Peter Lang Publishing Group 2009 257 pages Weight: 0.410 kg, 0.904 lbs Paperback ISBN: 978-3-03911-722-2 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” (Volume 3) Catriona Elder, Professor of Sociology University of Syndney By the mid-twentieth century the various Australian states began changing their…
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Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia Peter Lang Publishing Group 2007 186 pages Weight: 0.330 kg, 0.728 lbs Paperback ISBN: 978-3-03911-323-1 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” (Volume 2) Edited by: Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of History, Anthropology and Sociology Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia What does an Australian look like? Many Australians assume…