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The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia

The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia

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ISBN10: 0822338408
ISBN13: 9780822338406
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Aug 9 2006
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.04 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
The Cultivation of Whiteness is an award-winning history of scientific ideas about race and place in Australia from the time of the first European settlement through World War II. Chronicling the extensive use of biological theories and practices in the construction and protection of whiteness, Warwick Anderson describes how a displaced Britishness (or whiteness) was defined by scientists and doctors in relation to a harsh, strange environment and in opposition to other races. He also provides the first account of extensive scientific experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on poor whites in tropical Australia and on Aboriginal people in the central deserts.

[Anderson] writes with passion, wit, and panache, and the principal virtues of The Cultivation of Whiteness are the old-fashioned ones of thoroughness, accuracy, and impeccable documentation. . . . [His] sensitive study is a model of how contentious historical issues can be confronted.-W. F. Bynum, Times Literary Supplement

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