Disrupted spaces: Racism and the lived experience of Maori identity formation

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Disrupted spaces: Racism and the lived experience of Maori identity formation

Te Hiwi, Erika

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10289/1528

Date: 2008

Type: Conference Contribution

Citation: Te hiwi, E. (2008). Disrupted spaces: Racism and the lived experience of Maori identity formation. In Levy, M., Nikora, L.W., Masters-Awatere, B., Rua, M. & Waitoki, W. (Eds). Claiming Spaces: Proceedings of the 2007 National Maori and Pacific Psychologies Symposium 23rd-24th November 2007 (pp. 12-18). Hamilton, New Zealand: Māori and Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato.

Publisher: Maori and Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato

Rights: Copyright © Maori and Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato 2008 Each contributor has permitted the Maori and Psychology Research Unit to publish their work in this collection. No part of the material protected in this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the contributor concerned.

Abstract:

In 2004, when Don Brash –then leader of the National Party, hit the headlines with his controversial ‘Orewa’ speech, so-called ‘mainstream’ New Zealanders, felt that at last they had their hero. Brash articulated what this group felt was the source of trouble in contemporary Aotearoa society – brown privilege. Letters to the editor and talkback lines ran hot with many applauding Brash’s calls for an end to the treaty gravy train and ‘race-based’ funding in health; anecdotes abounded of Māori students up and down the country getting a ‘free-ride’ through education and taking prized positions in training programmes from better qualified Pākehā. It was, according to the writers and callers, an oppressive Apartheid-style system favouring Māori that had to end.

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