Overview
Despite the mythology of benign race relations, Aotearoa New Zealand has experienced a very long history of underlying prejudice and racism. Little has been written about the experiences of Indian migrants, either historically or today, and most writing has focussed on celebration and integration. Invisible speaks of survival and the real impacts racism has on the lives of Indian New Zealanders. It uncovers a story of exclusion that has rendered Kiwi-Indians invisible in the historical narratives of the nation.
Full Product Details
Author: Jacqueline Leckie
Publisher: Massey University Press
Imprint: Massey University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.30cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.300kg
ISBN: 9780995140721
ISBN 10: 0995140723
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 09 September 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'timely, passionate, highly readable and deeply challenging.' - Jane Buckingham, New Zealand Journal of History
‘With extraordinary archival research, Leckie has brought to life those eras and some of their lingering echoes right here in New Zealand, reminding us that such entrenched discrimination isn’t just to be associated with the White Australia policy or apartheid South Africa or the old American South, then comfortably dismissed. But she has also made sure to record numerous stories of individual, and collective, resistance and protest, thereby emphasising the links between the rights, legal protections, and the levels of freedom and mutual respect in everyday life that people of all backgrounds rightly take as a given in present-day Aotearoa, and the invisible heroes who fought for them.’ -- Rajorshi Chakraborti ‘Leckie‘s book is a fine example of the sort of history we need to know in order to understand our present.’ . . . timely, passionate, highly readable and deeply challenging. -- Jane Buckingham
Author Information
Jacqueline Leckie is a researcher and writer based in Ōtepoti Dunedin. She was a former J. D. Stout research fellow and is now an adjunct research fellow with the Stout Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka, and conjoint associate professor in the School of Creative Industries and Social Science at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is a fellow of the New Zealand Indian Research Institute, an affiliated researcher of Centre for Global Migrations (Otago), and co-editor of the Journal of Pacific History. She has taught at the University of the South Pacific, Kenyatta University and the University of Otago. Her publications have covered health history, the Indian diaspora, gender, ethnicity, and work within the Asia–Pacific. Her books include Invisible: New Zealand’s History of Excluding Kiwi-Indians (2021), Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji (2020), Indian Settlers: The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community (2007), To Labour with the State (1997), and A University for the Pacific: 50 Years of USP (2018).
