{"id":11607,"date":"2011-01-19T03:56:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T03:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11607"},"modified":"2013-07-18T21:47:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T21:47:14","slug":"nowhere-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11607","title":{"rendered":"Nowhere People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nowhere People<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Penguin Books Australia
\n<\/a>January 2005
\n300 pages
\nPaperback ISBN-13:9780143001911<\/p>\n

Henry Reynolds<\/a><\/strong>, Emeritus Associate Professor of History and Politics
\nJames Cook University, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n

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‘That’s how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa<\/a> child and became a nowhere person… Motherless, cultureless and stuck in a government institution because my mother was Aboriginal and my father was not. I ceased to be an Aboriginal<\/a> but I would never be white. I was not something bad, shameful, called a half-caste.’\u2014<\/em>Hilda Jarman Muir<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, people of mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry\u2014half-castes<\/a>\u2014were commonly assumed to be morally and physically defective, unstable and degenerate. They bore the brunt of society’s contempt, and the remobal of their children created Australia’s<\/a> stolen generations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nowhere People<\/em> is a history of beliefs about people of mixed race, both in Australia and overseas. It explores the concept of racial purity, eugenics<\/a>, and the threat posed by miscegenation<\/a>. Award-winning author Henry Reynolds also tells for the first time of his own family’s search for the truth about his father’s ancestry, and gives a poignant account of the contemporary predicament facing people of mixed heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nowhere People Penguin Books Australia January 2005 300 pages Paperback ISBN-13:9780143001911 Henry Reynolds, Emeritus Associate Professor of History and Politics James Cook University, Australia ‘That’s how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa child and became a nowhere person… Motherless, cultureless and stuck in a government institution because my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,395,11,459,125,8,17,4405,26],"tags":[986,5233,5234],"class_list":["post-11607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-autobiography","category-books","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-oceania","category-politics","tag-australia","tag-henry-reynolds","tag-penguin-books-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}