Notes

an unsettled memoir
Alison Jones
240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
illustrations
Summary: This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pākehā. Every Pākehā becomes a Pākehā in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Māori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pākehā -- and other New Zealanders -- curious about their sense of identity and about the ambivalences we Pākehā often experience in our relationships with Māori. As questions of identity come to the fore once more in New Zealand, this frank and humane account of a life spent traversing Pākehā and Māori worlds offers important insights into our shared life on these islands. (Publisher)
New Zealand history collection