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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155127803321

Titolo

Mixed race identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands / / edited by Kirsten McGavin and Farida Fozdar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-19506-X

1-315-55939-0

1-317-19507-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages)

Collana

Routledge studies in anthropology.

Disciplina

305.80099

Soggetti

Ethnology - Oceania

Multiracial people - Australia

Multiracial people - New Zealand

Multiracial people - Islands of the Pacific

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Australia -- The Pacific -- New Zealand.

Sommario/riassunto

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, 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.