Bi/Multiracial Maori Women's Hybridity in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Bibliographic Data

ID2925631
AuthorsTess Moeke-Maxwell, Tess Moeke‐maxwell (0000-0002-3980-3228, University of Waikato, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume26
Issue4
Pages497-510
Publication date2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596300500319779
OpenAlexW2014845273
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited6

This paper examines the exclusion of bi/multiracial Maori women from dominant representations of Maori women's identity and engages with a new articulation of Maori women's difference through a narrative of cultural hybridity. Through a study of key texts on the history of New Zealand and dominant articulations describing Maori nationalists’ efforts to invoke equality for Maori during the 1970s and 1980s, I exemplify how an essentialist Maori women's identity was promoted within Maori nationalist appeals to bicultural nationalism. I argue that current articulations of Maori women's identity do not include an analysis of race, gender, and class, nor the way they operate simultaneously to position the bi-multi racial woman discursively in the nation today. Twenty women who position themselves as bi/multiracial were interviewed and their stories show how the raced and gendered body must be reinstated within articulations of Maori women's identity through situating corporeal difference within discussions on their subjectivity and related marginalization

Aesthetics · Aotearoa · Art · Essentialism · Hybridity · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Racialization · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · New Zealand Economic and Social Studies

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