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Creating White Australia

Creating White Australia

Paperback

Australia & OceaniaAnthropology

ISBN10: 1920899421
ISBN13: 9781920899424
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: May 18 2022
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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