Mixed Race Identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

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.

• Introduction: ‘Mixed Race’ in the Australo-Pacific Region by Farida Fozdar and Kirsten McGavin Australia1. Descent, Classification and Indigeneity in AustraliaEmma Kowal2. Chinese History, Indigenous Identity and Mixed Ancestry in Australia's Gulf CountryDavid Trigger and Richard Martin3. ‘A Mini United Nations’: Being Mixed in Multicultural AustraliaMaki Meyer and Farida Fozdar4. ‘Now, look at my skin, it is black and it is white together'Margot Ford and Ailsa Purdon5. ‘Just Asian’? Inscribing East Asian ‘Mixed Race’ in AustraliaCrystal AbidinThe Pacific 6. Constructing and Interpreting ‘Mixed Race’ and ‘Mixed Parentage’ in Papua New GuineaHelen Johnson and Kirsten McGavin7. The Transformation of the ‘Métis Question’ in New Caledonia,1853-2009Adrian Muckle and Benoît Trépied8. A Categorical Failure: ‘Mixed Race’ in Colonial Papua New GuineaMichael Goddard9. Lingering Legacies of German Colonialism: The ‘Mixed Race’ Identities in OceaniaChristine Winter10. ‘Mixed Race’ Activism within Ethno-Nationalist Conflict: West Papuan ExperiencesCamellia Webb-GannonNew Zealand11. ‘Kraut’, ‘Coconut’ or ‘Kiwi’?: German-Tongan Identity in New ZealandKasia Cook12. ‘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 ZealandRosalind Edwards13. Beyond ‘Mixed Race’ and ‘Unmixed Race’: Being and Having Race in Aotearoa/New ZealandNeriko Musha Doerr14. Narratives of Belonging and Not Belonging: Chinese/European ‘Mixed’ Identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand Zarine Rocha