Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: New Zealand
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When interviewer-based surveys try to gather data on ethnicity their questions may not always capture what they are aiming for; rather, it is the interviewees’ opinion on what ethnic group (or groups) they think they belong to. Partly in response to this sort of experience, the idea of ethnicity has now been replaced by today’s…
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OPINION: Who am I and where do I come from? Many New Zealanders ask themselves these important questions. This is the basis of our identity as individuals and as members of groups.
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A DNA test appears to have found a woman with 100 per cent Maori DNA.
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Like a human tsunami, World War II brought two million American servicemen to the South Pacific where they left a human legacy of some thousands of children. “Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific” traces the intimate relationships that existed in the wartime South Pacific between U.S. servicemen and Indigenous women, and considers the fate of…
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‘A New Holland Half-Caste’: Sealer and Whaler Tommy Chaseland History Australia Volume 5, Issue 1, 2008 pages 08.1-08.15 DOI: 10.2104/ha080008 Lynette Russell, Professor Monash University, Australia This article discusses the life of Tommy Chaseland, a ‘half-caste’ Aboriginal son of a convict who became a renowned sealer and whaler and emigrated to New Zealand in the…