AustLit

Contents: Maureen Perkins: Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia - Jan Teagle Kapetas: Lubra Lips, Lubra Lips: Reflections on my Face - Jean Boladeras: The Desolate Loneliness of Racial Passing - Lynette Rodriguez: But Who Are You Really? - Wendy Holland: Rehearsing Multiple Identities - Christine Choo/Antoinette Carrier/Clarissa Choo/Simon Choo: Being Eurasian - Glenn D'Cruz: 'Where Are You Coming From, Sir?' - Farida Tilbury: Hyphenated Realities: Growing up in an Indian-American-Bruneian Baha'i in 'Multicultural'Australia - Hsu-Ming Teo: Alien Asian in the Australian Nation - Ien Ang: Between Asia and the West.

'A new direction in Australian life writing, of interest not only to those of 'mixed race' descent, but also to those interested in connections between identity, culture and power more generally. [...] The Introduction is enormously valuable, succinct and provocative, offering a terrific summation of the field. An important contribution to the wider field of mixed race studies.' (Jacqueline Lo, Australian National University) - From publisher's webpage.

Epigraph: 'When did you come to Australia?' - Prime Minister John Howard, on meeting Professor Terence Chi-Shen Tao at the pre-ceremony reception for Australian of the Year award in January 2007. Professor Tao, winner of the 2006 Fields Medal, the 'Nobel prize of mathematics', was born in Adelaide.