Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification

    This handbook provides a global study of the classification of mixed race and ethnicity at the state level, bringing together a diverse range of country case studies from around the world.

  • Mixed Race Identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

    Mixed Race Identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands Routledge 2016-12-20 246 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781138677708 Edited by: Farida Fozdar, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology University of Western Australia Kirsten McGavin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthropology) School of Social Science University of Queensland This volume offers a “southern,” Pacific Ocean perspective on the…

  • Mixed Race in Australia and the region

    Mixed Race in Australia and the region University of Western Australia (UWA) 2015-06-08 through 2015-06-10 Conveners: Farida Fozdar People of ‘mixed race’ are often seen as marginal individuals managing cultural and psychological tensions, or alternatively valorised as the vanguard of an integrated, post-racial, cosmopolitan world (Edwards et al. 2012). Such dichotomies ignore the complex lived…

  • Being “Nesian”: Pacific Islander Identity in Australia

    Being “Nesian”: Pacific Islander Identity in Australia The Contemporary Pacific Volume 26, Number 1, 2014 pages 126-154 DOI: 10.1353/cp.2014.0013 Kirsten McGavin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology University of Queensland, Australia Pacific Islanders in Australia use the terms “Islander” and “Pacific Islander” in many ways and in different circumstances to define themselves and others. Through invoking…