{"id":41141,"date":"2015-05-15T20:09:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T20:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41141"},"modified":"2016-02-03T03:30:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T03:30:04","slug":"mixed-race-in-australia-and-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41141","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race in Australia and the region"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed Race in Australia and the region<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

University of Western Australia<\/a> (UWA)
\n2015-06-08 through 2015-06-10<\/p>\n

Conveners: Farida Fozdar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

People of \u2018mixed race\u2019 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 reality of being mixed \u2013 ranging from \u2018passing\u2019, to constructing multiracial identities, to embracing a cultural identity not necessarily reflected in one\u2019s appearance (see Perkins, 2007; Paradies, 2006; Song and Aspinall, 2012; Jones, 2011). Mixed identities are not singular and fixed, but multiple and fluid (Nandi & Platt 2012; Tilbury, 2007; Paradies, 2006), often characterised by \u2018ordinariness\u2019 (Caballero, 2012). The lived experience of being \u2018mixed\u2019 is strongly influenced by political and social context (Luke and Luke, 1999). While a growing body of research exists on \u2018mixed race\u2019, more productive approaches are needed to investigate the cultural production of \u2018mixedness\u2019.<\/p>\n

Perhaps surprisingly, Australia<\/a> and the region lag behind the rest of the world in research on \u2018mixed race\u2019. There has been little public debate about the place of \u2018mixed race\u2019 in Australia and New Zealand<\/a> (see Fozdar and Perkins, 2014). The subject does rate a hearing in Australia, however, in regard to people of mixed Aboriginal descent (Andrew Bolt<\/a> style) (see Paradies, 2006). The social and political contexts of mixed race in Australia, New Zealand and the region offer complex histories of colonisation and migration, making this region an important counterpoint to the large bodies of research undertaken in the UK and US.<\/p>\n

We invite papers on mixed race in Australia and surrounding countries, with a particular focus on mixed race across the life course (Csizmadia, 2012), the health and development of young people and families; cross-country comparison, and transgenerational effects. We are keen to include papers on mixed race of all types.<\/p>\n

Invited speakers include:<\/p>\n