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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Rehearsing Multiple Identities
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'In this chapter, I contest the accepted view that there is such a thing as race and that identity is based on it. I make visible the ways of seeing that have positioned me as 'not quite not white'. I demonstrate through a number of stories the way the construct of race permeates our education practices and cultural representations, influencing the construction of racially classified positions for all Australians.

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    y separately published work icon Visibly Different : Face, Place and Race in Australia Maureen Perkins (editor), Berne : Peter Lang , 2007 Z1413926 2007 anthology autobiography This volume contains nine life narratives by Australians who reflect on the experience of being categorised on the basis of their facial appearance. The introduction by the editor provides the theoretical framework to these narratives. It discusses the relevance to notions of belonging and identity of the term 'mixed race', and concludes that we are all mixed race, whether we look white, black or 'ethnic'. Berne : Peter Lang , 2007 pg. 85-101
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