Damon Salesa

Damon Ieremia Salesa (born 30 December 1972) is a Samoan New Zealand academic. Raised in Glen Innes, he attended Selwyn College and then the University of Auckland.[1] Salesa was the first Rhodes Scholar of Pacific descent.[2] He is currently head of the Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland.[3] He is married to Jenny Salesa, a lawyer and member of the New Zealand parliament for the Labour Party.[4]

Damon Ieremia Salesa
Born (1972-12-30) 30 December 1972
Alma materOxford University

In 2017, Salesa attracted significant press both with claims that Auckland has 'residential segregation'[5][6] and that Pacific Island sports stars are denied governance roles.[7][8][9]

Selected works
  • Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-960415-9.[10][11][12][13] (Won the Ernest Scott Prize for History.[14][15])
gollark: What of the Raspberry Pi Pico™ apioid?
gollark: I actually made CONS CONS all values in the program, for purposes.
gollark: ```lisp (let (qsort xs cont) (cond ((= xs '()) (cont '())) (true (do (let h (head xs)) (let t (tail xs)) (let part_result (partition_rec t (lambda (x) (< x h)) '(() ()))) (qsort (head part_result) (lambda (ls) (qsort (snd part_result) (lambda (rs) (cont (+ ls (list h) rs)))))) )) ))```Here is a sorting program.
gollark: Lisp is basically where you take a functional dynamically typed language and replace all the syntax with nested brackets.
gollark: As such, exactly 3 people will buy it.

References
  1. "Damon Salesa – The University of Auckland". Auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  2. "Damon Salesa – Samoans – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand". Teara.govt.nz. 17 March 2001. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  3. "Mr Damon Salesa – The University of Auckland". Arts.auckland.ac.nz. doi:10.1002/9781118305492.ch26. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  4. "Jenny Salesa to stand for Labour in Manukau East". Pacific Guardians. 24 February 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  5. "Auckland: city of cultural segregation". Newsroom.co.nz. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  6. "Auckland: A city of cultural segregation". Stuff.co.nz. 9 May 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  7. "Rugby could become 'weaker code' among Pacific players if league opens up eligibility". Stuff.co.nz. 10 December 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  8. "League: Polynesian stars just 'labourers'". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  9. "Pacific support for league could outstrip that for rugby | Radio New Zealand News". Radionz.co.nz. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  10. Ghosh, Durba (1 January 2013). "Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire, by Damon Ieremia Salesa". Victorian Studies. 55 (2): 363–365. doi:10.2979/victorianstudies.55.2.363. JSTOR 10.2979/victorianstudies.55.2.363.
  11. "H-Net Reviews". H-net.org. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  12. Bueltmann, T. (2013). "Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire, by Damon Ieremia Salesa". The English Historical Review. 128 (532): 705. doi:10.1093/ehr/cet061.
  13. Carter, Sarah (25 February 2014). "Racial Crossings: Race, intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire by Damon Ieremia Salesa (review)". Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 14. doi:10.1353/cch.2013.0015. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  14. "Damon Ieremia Salesa wins $12000 Ernest Scott Prize for History. | Articulation". Articulation.arts.unimelb.edu.au. 16 July 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  15. "Damon Salesa wins elite award". Spasifikmag.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2014.


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