{"id":8948,"date":"2010-09-15T19:54:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T19:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8948"},"modified":"2011-01-19T02:53:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T02:53:57","slug":"gender-work-and-fears-of-a-%e2%80%98hybrid-race%e2%80%99-in-1920s-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8948","title":{"rendered":"Gender, Work and Fears of a \u2018Hybrid Race\u2019 in 1920s New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gender, Work and Fears of a \u2018Hybrid Race\u2019 in 1920s New Zealand<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gender & History<\/a>
\nVolume 19, Issue 3<\/a> (November 2007)
\npages 501\u2013518
\nDOI: 10.1111\/j.1468-0424.2007.00495.x<\/p>\n

Barbara Brookes<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History
\nOtago University, New Zealand<\/em><\/p>\n

The 1929 New Zealand<\/a> Committee of Inquiry into the Employment of M\u0101ori<\/a> on Market Gardens affords insight into the ways in which masculine fears of racial degradation through miscegenation<\/a>\u2014of a \u2018hybrid\u2019 Chinese\/M\u0101ori race\u2014operated within a hierarchy of race, gender and Iwi<\/a> (tribal) interests. The participation of M\u0101ori men in national politics contributed to a new articulation of \u2018National Manhood\u2019, in which M\u0101ori men and white men combined to express fears about women’s work and sexuality and young women’s potential to undermine a fragile and contested hierarchy of racial purity. M\u0101ori women, silenced in the cacophony of voices lamenting their plight, were at the centre of debates between M\u0101ori men, Pakeha<\/a>\u00a0(white New Zealander) employers, Chinese market gardeners, Anglican and Methodist interests and Pakeha women’s groups. I argue that the Inquiry was about commerce, both in a business and a sexual sense. As a historical episode, it also serves to complicate the picture of New Zealand as a historically bicultural society, made up only of M\u0101ori and Pakeha, by signalling the importance of the Chinese in debates about national belonging.<\/p>\n

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Gender, Work and Fears of a \u2018Hybrid Race\u2019 in 1920s New Zealand Gender & History Volume 19, Issue 3 (November 2007) pages 501\u2013518 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1468-0424.2007.00495.x Barbara Brookes, Professor of History Otago University, New Zealand The 1929 New Zealand Committee of Inquiry into the Employment of M\u0101ori on Market Gardens affords insight into the ways in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,125,8,4405],"tags":[3834,2957,1774,1000],"class_list":["post-8948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-oceania","tag-barbara-brookes","tag-gender-history","tag-maori","tag-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948","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=8948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}