Race, Colour and Identity in Australia and New Zealand

Fourteen academics and writers from the land down under present papers on aboriginal identity, Asians in Australia, Australians in Asia, bi- and multiculturalism in New Zealand, and whiteness, most of which were presented at the 1998 Sydney conference, Adventures of Identity: Constructing the Multicultural Subject. The topics of the essays are about as multiple as the cultures discussed: Warlpiri Aborigine graffiti, name changing, Taiwanese immigrants, the multicultural subject in New Zealand literature, and the construction of whiteness in the Australian media. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR