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I have white skin and look like a European woman. I am of New Zealand Māori descent, which means my way of living in and explaining the world can be radically different to European ways. I am an autoethnographer and poet. These three statements coalesce in my current research into the embodied experiences of ethnicity for white skinned Māori.
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Kidd, J. (2016). White Skin, Brown Soul. In: Galvin, K.T., Prendergast, M. (eds) Poetic Inquiry II – Seeing, Caring, Understanding. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-316-2_9
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