Race is a junk word
“Race may make no biological sense, but this does not reduce the power and reach of the idea that it does.” — Richard Shaw, from his new book of essays “The Good Settler”.
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Author: Richard Shaw
I doubt this is what Hobson had in mind
“Hobson’s Pledge is terribly enthusiastic about treating all people equally, but not above weaponising ethnicity, which is what makes us distinctive, when it suits their misguided purposes.” — Richard Shaw.
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Uncovering the stories my family forgot, about a past still haunting Aotearoa
“The instruments used to displace the querulous Irish … are the same as those subsequently deployed to deal with the troublesome Māori.” — Professor Richard Shaw.
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From Parihaka to He Puapua: it’s time Pākehā New Zealanders faced their personal connections to the past
“For many Pākehā, me included, our time here began on land that had been stolen (sorry, ‘confiscated’) from the people to whom it belonged.” — Professor Richard Shaw.
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