Abstract
Fiji's citizens inherited a race conscious system developed during British colonialism. This paper discusses the issue of miscegenation and race segregation in colonial Fiji during 1920–70 in the lead-up to independence and it traces the emergence of a racially mixed community of Fijian/European mixed bloods (“Kailomas”) during early white settlement. The author, from this community, provides an analysis of the major themes of her people's collective memory and offers an alternative explanation of the true impact of Christianising missions and colonial policy on indigenous Fijians that treated their offspring as a group apart from their natural families. It draws attention to colonial management of this “race problem” and the creation of a privileged underclass of “Part-Europeans” who lived on the social fringes in the colonial ordering of Fiji. This legacy demonstrates the extent to which obsessive ideas surrounding racial boundaries have shaped present day thinking in Fiji.
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