Mixed Race Identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands (Routledge Studies in Anthropology)

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: ' Mixed Race' in the Australo-Pacific Region -- Australia -- 1 Descent, Classification and Indigeneity in Australia -- 2 Chinese History, Indigenous Identity and Mixed Ancestry in Australia's Gulf Country -- 3 'A Mini United Nations': Being Mixed in Multicultural Australia -- 4 'Now, Look at My Skin, It Is Black and It Is White Together' -- 5 'Just Asian'? Inscribing East Asian 'Mixed Race' in Australia -- The Pacific -- 6 Constructing and Interpreting 'Mixed Race' and 'Mixed Parentage' in Papua New Guinea -- 7 The Transformation of the 'Métis Question' in New Caledonia, 1853-2009 -- 8 A Categorical Failure: 'Mixed Race' in Colonial Papua New Guinea -- 9 Lingering Legacies of German Colonialism: The 'Mixed Race' Identities in Oceania -- 10 'Mixed Race' Activism Within Ethno-Nationalist Conflict: West Papuan Experiences -- New Zealand -- 11 'Kraut', 'Coconut', or 'Kiwi'?: German-Tongan Identity in New Zealand -- 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 -- 13 Beyond 'Mixed Race' and 'Unmixed Race': Being and Having Race in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- 14 Narratives of Belonging and Not Belonging: Chinese/ European 'Mixed' Identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Index 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.