{"id":38592,"date":"2014-11-28T18:10:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T18:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38592"},"modified":"2014-11-28T18:10:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T18:10:50","slug":"the-corporate-institution-of-mixed-race-indigeneity-discourse-and-orientalism-in-aboriginal-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38592","title":{"rendered":"The corporate institution of mixed race: Indigeneity, discourse, and Orientalism in Aboriginal policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acrawsa.org.au\/files\/ejournalfiles\/220Augustus20141.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The corporate institution of mixed race: Indigeneity, discourse, and Orientalism in Aboriginal policy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acrawsa.org.au\/ejournal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Race and Whiteness Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acrawsa.org.au\/ejournal\/?id=59\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 10, Number 1, 2014<\/a><br \/>\n17 pages<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arts.uottawa.ca\/history\/people\/augustus-camie\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Camie Augustus<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDepartment of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contradiction in Aboriginal policy, especially the oscillation between assimilation and segregation, is often viewed as inconsequential. The suggestion has been that inconsistency is typical of governments and even expected of administrations that have little time, money, or motivation to be overly concerned with Aboriginal matters. However, I posit that ambiguity has meaning. I propose that utilizing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Said\" target=\"_blank\">Said\u2019s<\/a> concept of the corporate institution of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orientalism_(book)\" target=\"_blank\">Orientalism<\/a> reveals a \u2018mixed-race\u2019 discourse in government records during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that in fact gives meaning to this contradictory nature. I examine the ways in which the texts of Aboriginal law and policy in Canada, the US, and Australia constitute a specific mixed-race discourse of ambivalence and ambiguity, in contrast to a racial discourse of certainty. Based on a discourse analysis of key policy texts, I conclude that ambiguity and ambivalence constitute part of a colonial structure based on racial binarisms where an absence of space for \u2018those in between\u2019 reflected the perceived transitional and transient nature of \u2018mixed-race\u2019 as a temporary category, and the impetus to eliminate it. This discourse is surprisingly similar and persistent across a broad span of time and space, suggesting that questions about racial mixing and the presence of mixed-ancestry Natives constituted a major determining factor in the shaping of Aboriginal law and policy in these three countries between 1850 and 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acrawsa.org.au\/files\/ejournalfiles\/220Augustus20141.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corporate institution of mixed race: Indigeneity, discourse, and Orientalism in Aboriginal policy Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Volume 10, Number 1, 2014 17 pages Camie Augustus Department of History University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Contradiction in Aboriginal policy, especially the oscillation between assimilation and segregation, is often viewed as inconsequential. The suggestion has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,459,8,3015,4405],"tags":[986,3176,13953],"class_list":["post-38592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-oceania","tag-australia","tag-camie-augustus","tag-critical-race-and-whiteness-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38592","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=38592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}