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Whitening Race [electronic resource] : Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism

Whitening Race [electronic resource] : Essays in Social...

Whitening Race [electronic resource] : Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism

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Whitening Race [electronic resource] : Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism

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Full title

Whitening Race [electronic resource] : Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism

Publisher

Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004.

Alternative title

BOOK

Date

2004.

Record Identifier

74VK3ekOljoX

MMS ID

991023937095202626

Language

English

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Physical content

1 online resource (321 p.)

Content type

text

Media type

computer

Carrier type

online resource

Contents

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Part I. Whiteness and Knowing; 1. Anxieties of dispossession: whiteness, history, and Australia's war in Viet Nam - Alison Ravenscroft; 2. Reconciliation in and out of perspective: white knowing, seeing, curating and being at home...

4. Thoughts on a politics of whiteness in a (never quite post) colonial country: abolitionism, essentialism and incommensurability - Jane Haggis5. Racial positioning, privilege and public debate - Gillian Cowlishaw; 6. Whiteness, epistemology and Indigenous representation - Aileen Moreton-Robinson;...

Part II. Whiteness and Nation10. Frontier theory: displacement and disavowal in the writing of white nations - Kate Foord; 11. 'A lovely land ... by shadows dark untainted'?: whiteness and early Queensland women's writing - Belinda McKay; 12. False whiteness: 'passing' and the stolen generations - M...

15. Whiteness in constructions of Australian nationhood: Indigenes, immigrants and governmentality - Catriona Elder, Cath Ellis and Angela Pratt16. Borderline anxieties: what whitening the Irish has to do with keeping out asylum seekers - Jon Stratton; 17. Refugees and the coloniality of power: bord...

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Publisher

Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004.

Date Published

2004.

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Summary

With its focus on Australia, Whitening Race engages with relations between migration, Indigenous dispossession and whiteness. It creates a new intellectual space that investigates the nature of racialised conditions and their role in reproducing colonising relations in Australia.

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Whitening Race [electronic resource] : Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism

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BOOK

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English

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74VK3ekOljoX

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3ekOljoX

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ISBN

0-85575-578-4

DDC

305.8900994

MMS ID

991023937095202626

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