Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Australia
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‘Breed out the Colour’ or the Importance of Being White Australian Historical Studies Volume 33, Issue 120 (2002) pages 286-302 DOI: 10.1080/10314610208596220 Russell McGregor, Associate Professor of History James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia This article examines inter-war proposals to ‘breed out the colour’ of Aborigines of mixed descent. Positioning these proposals in the context…
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Training for assimilation: Cecil cook and the ‘half‐caste’ apprentice regulations Melbourne Studies in Education (Currently known as Critical Studies in Education) Volume 29, Issue 1 (1987) pages 128-141 DOI: 10.1080/17508488709556226 Tony Austin Darwin Institute of Technology One of the most significant consequences of the colonisation of Aboriginal Australia was a fast growing population of people…
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Caught up in a scientific racism designed to breed out the black The Sydney Morning Herald 2008-02-14 Debra Jopson She was removed as a toddler and raped as a ward of the state. Valerie Linow knows only too well the tragedy of assimilation policy, writes Debra Jopson. The stolen child Valerie Linow is certain she…
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Ambiguities of Race: Science on the Reproductive Frontier of Australia and the Pacific Between the Wars Australian Historical Studies Volume 40, Issue 2, 2009 pages 143-160 DOI: 10.1080/10314610902849302 Warwick Anderson, Professor of History University of Sydney The attitudes of Australian biologists, anthropologists, and historians toward race mixing in the early-twentieth century should be viewed in…
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‘Queer magic’: Performing mixed-race on the Australian stage Contemporary Theatre Review Volume 16, Issue 2, 2006 pages 171-188 DOI: 10.1080/10486800600587138 Jacqueline Lo, Professor and Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies Austrailian National University Half-caste-woman, living a life apart. What did your story begin? Half-caste-woman, have you a secret heart Waiting for someone to…
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The Invisible Line Late Night Live ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio National 2011-06-13 Phillip Adams, Presenter Kris Short, Story Researcher and Producer Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law (and author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White) Vanderbilt University In America race has always been a potent…
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Too White to be Regarded as Aborigines: An historical analysis of policies for the protection of Aborigines and the assimilation of Aborigines of mixed descent, and the role of Chief Protectors of Aborigines in the formulation and implementation of those policies, in Western Australia from 1898 to 1940. University of Notre Dame, Australia March 2008…
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Living as Others in Japan Japanese Studies Association of Australia 2011 Biennial Conference Internationalising Japan: Sport, Culture and Education University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School 185 Pelham Street Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia 2011-07-04 through 2011-07-07 Wednesday, 2011-07-06, 11:00-12:30 AEDT (Local Time) Room 102 This panel will present two historical papers about individuals whose lives were…