Interracial Families
Definitions: Before you begin, you'll need to establish:
1. Legal defintions of Race
2. Ways families might define their race
3. Different types of interracial families
You may also want to look at concepts around hybrid or biracial identity and where this fits with Australian concepts of a "multiculural" society.
Quick (but not necessarily reliable) reads that outline the issues to start you off:
Mixed race couples still face racism in Australia [http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/marriage/mixed-race-couples-still-face-racism-in-australia/news-story/d80a95bbb4c6127414bf510850ea8cd2] - uses anecdotes to outline some of the issues, especially around public perceptions of parents.
Mixed race couples still face racism in Australia [http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/marriage/mixed-race-couples-still-face-racism-in-australia/news-story/d80a95bbb4c6127414bf510850ea8cd2] - uses anecdotes to outline some of the issues, especially around public perceptions of parents.
Accessible Journal Articles:
Intermarriage, Integration and Multiculturalism [http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p113381/pdf/ch062.pdf] uses intermarraige between different races to assess the degree to which multiculturalism works in our society.
Families and Cultural Diversity in australia [https://aifs.gov.au/publications/families-and-cultural-diversity-australia/10-vietnamese-australian-families] looks at the way migrant families fit into the Australian version of Multiculturalism and includes specific chapters on specific studies on Aboriginal, Greek, Italian, Filipino, Latin american, Lebanese, and Chinese families (try logging in through the state library to access this one)
Intermarriage, Integration and Multiculturalism [http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p113381/pdf/ch062.pdf] uses intermarraige between different races to assess the degree to which multiculturalism works in our society.
Families and Cultural Diversity in australia [https://aifs.gov.au/publications/families-and-cultural-diversity-australia/10-vietnamese-australian-families] looks at the way migrant families fit into the Australian version of Multiculturalism and includes specific chapters on specific studies on Aboriginal, Greek, Italian, Filipino, Latin american, Lebanese, and Chinese families (try logging in through the state library to access this one)
“Yuck, you disgust me!” Affective bias against interracial couples [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103116300555]
Author links open overlay panelAllison L.SkinneracCaitlin M.Hudacbc
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.05.008
These journal articles can be accessed through your local or state library:
Intercultural Marriage and Family [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1066480701091008] looks at the way expectations placed on interracial families and how this affects children and adolescents growing up in these families.
Glocal Identities: Crafting identities in Interracial families [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/136787790364001] looks at the processes of "how ‘passing’, ‘crossing’ and ‘estrangements’ constitute transformational mobilities and movement in identity formation" in Indo-Asian families. It's a bit theoretical but it does highlight the different strategies people take to deal with the impact of being in an interracial family.
Intercultural Parenting and the Transcultural Family [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1066480706297783]
https://www.able.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/2727346/Mixed-Race-Symposium-Program-Timetable-Final-2.pdf has some paper references from a conference.
Tongan families
"...the essentialist notion that “the Tongan culture” exists as some kind of stable, bounded entity is readily accepted [in Tongan communities]. This is confirmed in the way Tongans measure themselves and each other against this norm, as being more or less Tongan (Morton nd). Yet ‘Ana and other Tongans with whom I have discussed “culture” also acknowledge the characteristics more often identified in anthropology today: culture as strategic, constructed, fragmented, improvised, contested, and so on. They hold both views of culture, invoking them according to context and, most important, incorporating both in the construction of their cultural identities. " Creating their own culture: Diasporic Tongans explores "Tongan Way" is changing in Australian and Tongan contexts. It's very readable for an academic article and a great starting point for exploring Tongan identity.
I don't know if it's worth getting this annotated bibliography from a previous student - let me know: https://www.thinkswap.com/au/hsc/society-and-culture/year-12/pip-notes-biracial-identity-crisis
Tongan idenity and the complications of sport: https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/51532/2016-12-ma-halaufia.pdf