Abstract:
A review of Matters of the heart: A history of intermarriage in New Zealand. Wanhalla, Angela (2013). Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press. 231 pp. ISBN: 978- 1- 86940- 731- 5. Angela Wanhalla’s Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand brilliantly captures the frequently contradictory accounts of “interracial relationships” forged in the early period of contact leading up to colonialism and beyond. With exceptional attention to chronological and social detail she takes the reader on an historical romp traversing a 200-year period between the 1770s and the 1970s.
