{"id":36212,"date":"2014-04-06T16:48:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T16:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36212"},"modified":"2014-04-06T16:48:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T16:48:39","slug":"seminar-on-mixed-race-in-fiji-the-part-indian-fijians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36212","title":{"rendered":"Seminar on Mixed Race in Fiji: The Part Indian Fijians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seminar on Mixed Race in Fiji: The Part Indian Fijians<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

2014-04-05<\/p>\n

Rolando Cocom<\/a><\/strong>
\nSchool of Social Science
\nThe University of the South Pacific<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a research design of an explorative study to be conducted in Fiji<\/a> on ‘mixed race’ persons of iTaukei and Indo-Fijian parentage. The study seeks to render an interpretive understanding of ‘mixed race’ ethnic and national identification based on interviews with participants in Suva, Fiji. The research questions are (a) how do persons of mixed parentage (iTaukei and Indo-Fijian) identify themselves with an ethnic label or labels? (b) what are the perspectives on the institutionalization of the term “Fijian” as a national identity label? (c) what do such experiences tells us about the racialization and politicization of ethnicity? This study is interesting and significant in light of the increasing number of ‘multiracial’ movements in Anglo-America; the small number of inter-marriages between iTaukei and Indo-Fijian citizens; and the recent policy change to identify all Fijian citizens with the term Fijian. The presentation covers the central aspects of research designs: the literature review (on Anglo-America & Fiji), conceptual framework, methodology, and the modest implications of the study.<\/p>\n

Read the presentation (in Microsoft Powerpoint) here<\/a>.
\nRead the discussion paper (in PDF format) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NOTE: No part of this presentation is to be used, redistributed, or cited without the author’s consent. Contact: cocom_rolando@yahoo.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n