scholarly journals Theoretic history by osmosis: the language of common sense and the comparative history of ‘race relations’ in Australia and New Zealand

2011 ◽  
Vol 02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervyn Hartwig
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Comparative History ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Race

Delinquency and Bicultural Relations: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Symbolic Representation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Emotional Deprivation ◽  
History Of

This chapter shows how Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople, the most successful New Zealand film to date, adopts similar stylistic methods as Waititi’s earlier hit, Boy, in order to address similar themes: the effect of emotional deprivation as a result of parental abandonment, and the search for love and family. Through a comparison with the source novel, Barry Crump’s Wild Pork and Watercress (1986), the analysis retraces the means by which Waititi converts a story involving individuals into a symbolic representation of the history of New Zealand race relations at large with the aim of proposing a fruitful way forward for the future.

The Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital.

1967 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 593
Author(s):  
Robert H. Bremner ◽  
Constance McLaughlin Green
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Race

Toward a Comparative History of Racial Thought in Africa: Historicism, Barbarism, Autochthony

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-98
Author(s):  
Jonathon Glassman
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Comparative History ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global North ◽  
Human Kinds ◽  
Racial Thought ◽  
History Of Race

AbstractUsing material from the history of African thought, this essay proposes a strategy for writing a comparative history of race that ranges beyond a consideration of white supremacy and its anti-racist inflections. Studies of race outside the global north have often been hobbled by rigid modernist assumptions that over-privilege the determining influence of Western discourses at the expense of local intellectual inheritances. This essay, in contrast, proposes a focus on locally inherited discourses of difference that have shown signs of becoming racialized, at times through entanglement with Western ideas. It pays particular attention to discourses that arranged “human kinds” along a progression from barbarian to civilized, suggesting the presence of African historicisms that in modern times have converged with the stadial ideas that played a major role in Western racial thought.

scholarly journals Corners, Tables, Lines

Nuncius ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-531
Author(s):  
Staffan Müller-Wille
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Combinatorial Analysis ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
Administrative Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Diagrammatic Representations ◽  
History Of Race

Abstract The modern concept of race is usually traced back to proponents of a “natural history of mankind” in the European Enlightenment. Starting from allegorical representations of the four continents in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the eighteenth-century visual genre of castas paintings, I suggest that modern conceptions of race were significantly shaped by diagrammatic representations of human diversity that allowed for tabulation of data, combinatorial analysis, and quantification, and hence functioned as “tools to think with.” Accounting for racial ancestry in terms of “proportions of blood” not only became a preoccupation of scholars as a consequence, but also came to underwrite administrative practices and popular discourses. To contribute to a better understanding of the history of race relations, historians of the race concept need to pay more attention to these diagrammatic aspects of the concept.

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