Open AccessREVIEW: The veneer is radical, but the substance is not.
Author(s) -
Evan Te Ahu Poata-Smith
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v11i1.834
Subject(s) - project commissioning , treaty of waitangi , racism , publishing , law , political science , sociology , decree , treaty , media studies , gender studies
Review of Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou Struggle Without End (Revised Edition), by Ranginui WalkerKa Whawhai Tonu Matou represented a challenge to the more sanitised versions of history that tended to present New Zealand as a harmonious and progressive nation in a world otherwise characterised by incessant ethnic conflict, racism and division. This romanticism, originally encapsualted in Hobson's decree at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi that New Zealand was 'one nation, one people', had become firmly entrenched in the conciousness of many New Zealanders.