Creating White Australia

Author : Jane Carey,Claire McLisky
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781920899424

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Creating White Australia by Jane Carey,Claire McLisky Pdf

The adoption of White Australia as government policy in 1901 demonstrates that whiteness was crucial to the ways in which the new nation of Australia was constituted. And yet, historians have largely overlooked whiteness in their studies of Australia's racial past. Creating White Australia takes a fresh approach to the question of 'race' in Australian history. It demonstrates that Australia's racial foundations can only be understood by recognising whiteness too as 'race'. Including contributions from some of the leading as well as emerging scholars in Australian history, it breaks new ground by arguing that 'whiteness' was central to the racial ideologies that created the Australian nation. This book pursues the foundations of white Australia across diverse locales. It also situates the development of Australian whiteness within broader imperial and global influences. As the recent apology to the Stolen Generations, the Northern Territory Intervention and controversies over asylum seekers reveal, the legacies of these histories are still very much with us today.

Author : Richard White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000257656

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Inventing Australia by Richard White Pdf

'White sets himself a most ambitious task, and he goes remarkably far to achieving his goals. Very few books tell so much about Australia, with elegance and concision, as does his' - Professor Michael Roe 'Stimulating and informative. an antidote to the cultural cringe' - Canberra Times 'To be Australian': what can that mean? Inventing Australia sets out to find the answers by tracing the images we have used to describe our land and our people - the convict hell, the workingman's paradise, the Bush legend, the 'typical' Australian from the shearer to the Bondi lifesaver, the land of opportunity, the small rich industrial country, the multicultural society. The book argues that these images, rather than describing an especially Australian reality, grow out of assumptions about nature, race, class, democracy, sex and empire, and are 'invented' to serve the interests of particular groups. There have been many books about Australia's national identity; this is the first to place the discussion within an historical context to explain how Australians' views of themselves change and why these views change in the way they do.

Author : James Jupp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521697897

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From White Australia to Woomera by James Jupp Pdf

Immigration specialist James Jupp surveys changes in immigration policy since 1972.

Author : Keith Windschuttle
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 1876492112

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The White Australia Policy by Keith Windschuttle Pdf

Race and shame in the Australian history wars. Many historians today argue that its immigration policy was once so shamefully racist that Australia was in danger of becoming an international pariah, like South Africa under apartheid. This book shows these claims are so exaggerated they lack all credibility. Australia is not, and never has been, the racist country its academic historians have condemned.

Author : Stefanie Affeldt
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643905697

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Consuming Whiteness by Stefanie Affeldt Pdf

The "White Australia Policy" - the country's historical policy that favored immigration to Australia from various European countries, especially Britain - has largely been discussed with regard only to its political-ideological perspective. No account was taken of the central problem of racist societalization, i.e. the everyday production and reproduction of race as a social relation (doing race) supported by broad sections of the population. This comprehensive study of Australian racism and the historical "white sugar" campaign shows that the latter was only able to achieve success because it was embedded in a widespread white Australia culture that found expression in all spheres of life. (Series: Racism Analysis - Series A: Studies - Vol. 4) [Subject: Social History, Australian Studies]

Author : Leong Yew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136884115

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Alterities in Asia by Leong Yew Pdf

This book investigates the politics of identity in Asia and explores how different groups of people inside and outside Asia have attempted to relate to the alterity of the places and cultures in the region through various modes (literary and filmic representation, scholarly knowledge, and so on) and at different points in time. Although coming from different perspectives like literary criticism, film studies, geography, cultural history, and political science, the contributors collectively argue that Asian otherness is more than the dialectical interplay between the Western self and one of its many others, and more than just the Orientalist discourse writ large. Rather, they demonstrate the existence of multiple levels of inter-Asian and intercultural contact and consciousness that both subvert as much as they consolidate the dominant ‘Western Core-Asian periphery’ framework that structures what the mainstream assumes to be knowledge of Asia. With chapters covering a wealth of topics from Korea and its Cold War history, to Australia's Asian identity crisis, this book will be of huge interest to anyone interested in critical Asian studies, Asian ethnicity, postcolonialism and Asia cultural studies. Leong Yew is an Assistant Professor in the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Disjunctive Empire of International Relations (2003).

Author : Kathomi Gatwiri,Leticia Anderson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811942822

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Afrodiasporic Identities in Australia by Kathomi Gatwiri,Leticia Anderson Pdf

This book explores the Afro-diasporic experiences of African skilled migrants in Australia. It explores research participants' experiences of migration and how these experiences inform their lives and the lives of their family. It provides theory-based arguments examining how mainstream immigration attitudes in Australia impact upon Black African migrants through the mediums of mediatised moral panics about Black criminality and acts of everyday racism that construct and enforce their 'strangerhood'. The book presents theoretical writing on alternate African diasporic experiences and identities and the changing nature of such identities. The qualitative study employed semi-structured interviews to investigate multiple aspects of the migrant experience including employment, parenting, family dynamics and overall sense of belonging. This book advances our understanding of the resilience exercised by skilled Black African migrants as they adjust to a new life in Australia, with particular implications for social work, public health and community development practices.

Author : Laksiri Jayasuriya
Publisher : SSS Publications
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9788190228299

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Transforming a 'White Australia' by Laksiri Jayasuriya Pdf

Mass immigration post World War II has transformed Australian society and politics. This is indeed a far cry from the vision of the architects of the 'White Australia' policy over a hundred years ago. This volume explores this dramatic change by examining the politics of the peopling of Australia dating from the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, the so-called 'White Australia' policy which sought to forge the Australian nation as a 'citadel of the British speaking race' (Prime Minister Curtin). The book examines how critical issues of race and immigration still haunt the political landscape even as we find an increasingly cosmopolitan Australia becoming more Asian oriented. As a study of this unique and successful experiment in creating a diverse and multicultural society, this book will be useful to anyone interested in what drives and sustains a diverse and pluralistic society.

Author : David Robert Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Asia
ISBN : 1760800600

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Stranded Nation by David Robert Walker Pdf

David Walker's Stranded Nation is a recommended read for anyone, politicians and students alike, seeking to know the history of Australia's agonising over Asia; how it began, how it evolved and the passionate and colourful characters involved. Stranded Nation is told with authority, insight and wit, and the satisfying readability of a good novel, and that makes it great history.' -- Stephen FitzGerald, writer, sinologist and Australia's first Ambassador to the People's Republic of ChinaFor well over a century Australia's place in Asia has been at the forefront of public discussion and controve.

Author : Deana Lee Heath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3495960

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Creating the Moral Colonial Subject by Deana Lee Heath Pdf

Author : Sarah Maddison
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459622616

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Beyond White Guilt by Sarah Maddison Pdf

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Author : Kalwant Bhopal,Patrick Danaher
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441184344

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Identity and Pedagogy in Higher Education by Kalwant Bhopal,Patrick Danaher Pdf

Kalwant Bhopal and Patrick Danaher examine 'race', identity and gender within education and explore the difficulties of relating these concepts to the experience of students in higher education. In drawing together the experience of local and international students in the UK and in Australia, they examine the ways identities are understood and conceptualized within higher education in local contexts and on a global level. They consider the complexity of 'race', gender and identity in relation to education within the context that education continues to be dominated by predominantly white, middle class values and perspectives. Identity and Pedagogy in Higher Education examines the extent to which education as a vehicle for change in the light of the controversial debates surrounding race and gender inequalities.

Author : Adrian Danks,Stephen Gaunson,Peter C. Kunze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319666761

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American–Australian Cinema by Adrian Danks,Stephen Gaunson,Peter C. Kunze Pdf

This edited collection assesses the complex historical and contemporary relationships between US and Australian cinema by tapping directly into discussions of national cinema, transnationalism and global Hollywood. While most equivalent studies aim to define national cinema as independent from or in competition with Hollywood, this collection explores a more porous set of relationships through the varied production, distribution and exhibition associations between Australia and the US. To explore this idea, the book investigates the influence that Australia has had on US cinema through the exportation of its stars, directors and other production personnel to Hollywood, while also charting the sustained influence of US cinema on Australia over the last hundred years. It takes two key points in time—the 1920s and 1930s and the last twenty years—to explore how particular patterns of localism, nationalism, colonialism, transnationalism and globalisation have shaped its course over the last century. The contributors re-examine the concept and definition of Australian cinema in regard to a range of local, international and global practices and trends that blur neat categorisations of national cinema. Although this concentration on US production, or influence, is particularly acute in relation to developments such as the opening of international film studios in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and the Gold Coast over the last thirty years, the book also examines a range of Hollywood financed and/or conceived films shot in Australia since the 1920s.

Author : Tony Birch
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780702262050

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The White Girl by Tony Birch Pdf

A searing new novel from leading Indigenous storyteller Tony Birch that explores the lengths we will go to in order to save the people we love.Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town. After her daughter disappeared and left her with her granddaughter Sissy to raise on her own, Odette has managed to stay under the radar of the welfare authorities who are removing fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. When a new policeman arrives in town, determined to enforce the law, Odette must risk everything to save Sissy and protect everything she loves. In The White Girl, Miles-Franklin-shortlisted author Tony Birch shines a spotlight on the 1960s and the devastating government policy of taking Indigenous children from their families.

Author : Gregory D. Smithers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803295919

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Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940 by Gregory D. Smithers Pdf

Revised edition of the author's Science, sexuality, and race in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1890s, 2009.