{"id":9700,"date":"2010-10-21T03:14:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T03:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9700"},"modified":"2011-01-19T02:53:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T02:53:57","slug":"mai-i-nga-ao-e-rua%e2%80%93from-two-worlds-an-investigation-into-the-attitudes-towards-half-castes-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9700","title":{"rendered":"Mai i ng\u0101 Ao e Rua\u2013From Two Worlds: An investigation into the attitudes towards half castes in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/eprintstetumu.otago.ac.nz\/51\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mai i ng\u0101 Ao e Rua\u2013From Two Worlds: An investigation into the attitudes towards half castes in New Zealand<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Otago, Dunedin<br \/>\nOctober 2006<br \/>\n91 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suzanne Boyes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Honours), in M\u0101ori Studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This dissertation investigates the attitudes of others\u2019 experienced by \u2018half-caste\u2019 or biethnic people of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Zealand\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a>, that is, people who have both <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%C4%81ori\" target=\"_blank\">M\u0101ori<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P%C4%81keh%C4%81\" target=\"_blank\">P\u0101keh\u0101<\/a> heritage. The dissertation combines the personal narratives of four half-caste people, my own story, and historical\/theoretical literature to illuminate this subject. The dissertation introduces the topic by firstly, discussing the current identity politics in New Zealand, which has tended to dominate the political landscape as of late, and left half-caste people between the crossfire. Secondly, I introduce part of my own story as a half-caste person in New Zealand. In Chapter one, the pre-colonial origins of attitudes towards race, intermarriage and miscegenation are examined through an analysis of religious and scientific discourses. Chapter Two provides a basic understanding of M\u0101ori and P\u0101keh\u0101 identity as separate entities, with the aim of demonstrating the binary opposites that have informed attitudes towards half-castes in New Zealand. The third chapter outlines a number of themes regarding attitudes towards the half caste people I interviewed as part of this research. The final chapter brings together literature and interview material through the lens of a <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drmariaroot.com\/doc\/BillOfRights.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People<\/a><\/em> to provide an approach for looking towards the future of half-caste identity politics.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire dissertation <a href=\"http:\/\/eprintstetumu.otago.ac.nz\/51\/01\/Boyes_490.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mai i ng\u0101 Ao e Rua\u2013From Two Worlds: An investigation into the attitudes towards half castes in New Zealand University of Otago, Dunedin October 2006 91 pages Suzanne Boyes A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Honours), in M\u0101ori Studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin This dissertation investigates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,838,125,8,4405,394],"tags":[1774,1000,4206,4205,4207],"class_list":["post-9700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-dissertations","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-oceania","category-socialscience","tag-maori","tag-new-zealand","tag-pakeha","tag-suzanne-boyes","tag-university-of-otago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9700","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=9700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}