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This volume offers a "southern," Pacific Ocean perspective on the topic of racial hybridity, exploring it through a series of case studies from around the Australo-Pacific region. Focusing on the interaction between "race" and culture, especially in terms of visibility and self-defined identity; and the particular characteristics of political, c
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Introduction: ‘Mixed Race’ in the Australo-Pacific Region by Farida Fozdar and Kirsten McGavin
Australia
1. Descent, Classification and Indigeneity in Australia
Emma Kowal
2. Chinese History, Indigenous Identity and Mixed Ancestry in Australia's Gulf Country
David Trigger and Richard Martin
3. ‘A Mini United Nations’: Being Mixed in Multicultural Australia
Maki Meyer and Farida Fozdar
4. ‘Now, look at my skin, it is black and it is white together'
Margot Ford and Ailsa Purdon
5. ‘Just Asian’? Inscribing East Asian ‘Mixed Race’ in Australia
Crystal Abidin
The Pacific
6. Constructing and Interpreting ‘Mixed Race’ and ‘Mixed Parentage’ in Papua New Guinea
Helen Johnson and Kirsten McGavin
7. The Transformation of the ‘Métis Question’ in New Caledonia,1853-2009
Adrian Muckle and Benoît Trépied
8. A Categorical Failure: ‘Mixed Race’ in Colonial Papua New Guinea
Michael Goddard
9. Lingering Legacies of German Colonialism: The ‘Mixed Race’ Identities in Oceania
Christine Winter
10. ‘Mixed Race’ Activism within Ethno-Nationalist Conflict: West Papuan Experiences
Camellia Webb-Gannon
New Zealand11. ‘Kraut’, ‘Coconut’ or ‘Kiwi’?: German-Tongan Identity in New Zealand
Kasia Cook
12. ‘It’s a Bicultural Nation. But the Journey Towards True Biculturalism, It’s Not There Yet’: Exploring Fathers’ Racial Projects in Bringing Up Their Multi-Race Children in New Zealand
Rosalind Edwards
13. Beyond ‘Mixed Race’ and ‘Unmixed Race’: Being and Having Race in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Neriko Musha Doerr
14. Narratives of Belonging and Not Belonging: Chinese/European ‘Mixed’ Identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand Zarine Rocha
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Farida Fozdar is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia.
Kirsten McGavin is Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthropology) in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland.
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This volume offers a "southern," Pacific Ocean perspective on the topic of racial hybridity, exploring it through a series of case studies from around the Australo-Pacific region. Focusing on the interaction between "race" and culture, especially in terms of visibility and self-defined identity; and the particular characteristics of political, c
