Mixed Race Identities in Australia, Ne Zealand and the Pacific Islands [Hardcover]

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, a region unique as a result of its very particular colonial histories. Focusing on the interaction between race and culture, especially in terms of visibility and self-defined identity; and the particular characteristics of political, cultural and social formations in the countries of this region, the book explores the complexity of the lived mixed race experience, the structural forces of particular colonial and post-colonial environments and political regimes, and historical influences on contemporary identities and cultural expressions of mixed-ness.

Introduction: Mixed Race in the Australo-Pacific Region

1. Descentism in Three Acts

2. Reimagining Ancestry in Northern Australias Gulf Country: The Politics of History, Indigeneity and Race

3. Raising Mixed Race Asian/European Migrant Children in Australia

4. See This Skin, It Is Black and White Together

5. Asian (Con)Fusion: Identity Markers Among Mixed-Asian Race Individuals in Perth, Western Australia

6. Who Are We?German-Tongan Identity in New Zealand and Australia

7. Constructing and Interpreting Mixed Race and Mixed Parentage in Papua New Guinea