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Anthony, Jim. Sex Across the Color Line: A neglected topic in Pacific history. PhD Thesis, Suva: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies, 2007. Annotation
This is a memoir written by the Author on behalf of his mother to search for her real identity as to who her real father is after she was born out of wedlock from an Indo-fijian woman and believed that her was was a white man. This memoir is an account on Owen Scott's seminal disclosure and, for the first time additional corroborating evidence is adduced to support the proposition that Sir Henry Scott is more likely the biological father of the Author's mother. The intended audience are the public and also the new generation of the author.
This memoir can be compared to Hall's
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The Black Diggers: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press for the Autralian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1997.
Annotation
Robert Anthony Hall was born in 1947 and is an Australian writer who wrote this book through his travelling around the country while he interviews Aboriginal, Islander and white Australians to explore the war effort of Aboriginal and Islander Australians during the second world war and the reasons their contribution has gone unrecognized for so long.
The book was for any audience who wants to know more about Australians and how they live in black-white relations in their country.
It is similar to Val Mete's "Growing Up a Chatham Islander" because they are both about Australians and Australian Islanders who are trying to live and get adjusted to the changes in their communities as there are also white Australian living among their socities.
This book clearly depicted racial differences which in fact is a reality nowadays in our societies, because even the Aborigines who are people of the land are being treated differently by the laws when they work together along the white australian even if they are

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