No Māori allowed : New Zealand's forgotten history of racial segregation : how a generation of Māori children perished in the fields of Pukekohe / Robert E. Bartholomew (PhD) ; preface by Bruce Ringer.
Material type: TextPublisher: [Auckland] : [Robert E. Bartholomew], [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: viii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0473488868
- 9780473488864
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- Crimes against -- New Zealand -- Auckland
- Race discrimination -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- History -- 20th century
- Whakahāwea iwi
- Noho-ā-iwi
- Hara
- Ahu whenua
- Kōrero nehe
- Āhuatanga pāpori
- Auckland (N.Z.) -- Race relations
- 305.89944209324 23
- DU463 .B37 2020
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 305.89944209324 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Issued | 30/09/2024 | A562689B | |
Book | South Campus City Campus Main Collection | 305.89944209324 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Issued | 01/10/2024 | A562690B |
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: an inconvenient truth -- Pukekohe: a town divided -- Exploited and excluded -- The road to otherness -- We don't cut Maori hair: stories of racial segregation in Pukekohe -- We don't serve Maori here: exposing the national colour bar -- Maori need not apply -- Confronting the past.
There was a time when Māori were: barred from public toilets, segregated at the cinema & swimming baths, refused alcohol, haircuts & taxi rides, forced to stand for white bus passengers, not allowed to attend school with other students. It happened in the South Auckland town of Pukekohe. From 1925 to the early 1960s, hundreds of Māori infants and children died there in the racially segregated slums where they were forced to live in shacks and manure sheds on the edge of town, away from European residents. Using records from the National Archives and firsthand interviews, No Maori Allowed looks at what happened at Pukekohe and the extent of racial intolerance across the country at this time. In Hamilton, stores refused to let them try on pants. On K Road in Auckland, shops signs read 'No Credit for Maori'. Councils jacked up prices for state houses to keep them out of 'white' neighbourhoods. Hospitals had segregated maternity wards and gave them less expensive cutlery. Banks and shops had official policies of not hiring 'coloureds'.
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