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Angela Wanhalla starts her story with the mixed-descent community at Maitapapa, Taieri, where her great-grandparents, John Brown and Mabel Smith, were born. As the book took shape, a community emerged from the records, re-casting history and identity in the present.

Drawing on the experiences of mixed-descent families, In/visible Sight examines the early history of cross-cultural encounter and colonization in southern New Zealand. There Ng?i Tahu engaged with the European newcomers on a sustained scale from the 1820s, encountering systematic settlement from the 1840s and...

In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and settlers or sojourners, this book is concerned with migrant aspects of this phenomenon whether migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters bringing together studies from a variety of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their resonances across the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. Organised thematically into sections focusing on imperial encounters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, identities in the twentieth and twenty-first...

Over the course of World War II, two million American military personnel occupied bases throughout the South Pacific, leaving behind a human legacy of at least 4,000 children born to indigenous mothers. Based on interviews conducted with many of these American-indigenous children and several of the surviving mothers, Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific explores the intimate relationships that existed between untold numbers of U.S. servicemen and indigenous women during the war and considers the fate of their mixed-race children. These relationships developed in the major U.S. bases of...