July 13, 2014
Mixed marriage book wins history prize
Otago University lecturer Dr Angela Wanhalla has won a prestigious Australasian award for her study of interracial marriage in New Zealand, Matters of the Heart.
The Ernest Scott prize is worth about $13,000 and it’s given to the book judged to be the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand or to the history of colonization.
The judges said the beautifully written and clearly structured book makes an important contribution to overturning simplistic paradigms of race relations on the frontier and beyond.
Matters of the Heart was published by Auckland University Press.
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