Creating white Australia / edited by Jane Carey and Claire McLisky
- Bib ID:
- 4704819
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2009
- xxiii, 229 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781920899424
- Summary:
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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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- White Australia policy
- Racism -- Australia
- Gender relations - Feminism
- Settlement and contacts - Government settlements, reserves
- Health status - Nutrition
- Mining industry - Gold
- Settlement and contacts - Ethnic groups, immigration and multiculturalism
- Ceremonies - Performance and performance practice
- Social identity - Mixed descent
- Religions - Christianity - Missionaries
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Reproduction - Infanticide
- Race relations - Racial discrimination - Social
- Government policy - Assimilation
- Settlement and contacts - Chinese
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- Australia -- Race relations -- History
- Bendigo (N Vic SJ55-01)
- Lake Wellington / Ramahyuck (E Vic Gippsland SJ55-11)
- Victoria (Vic)
- Maloga (SW NSW SJ55-01)
- New South Wales (NSW)
- Cummeragunja (SW NSW SJ55-01)
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- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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