| Description |
xiv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
UQP's Australian symposium series ; no. 1 |
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UQP symposium series ; no. 1
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| Contents |
1. Anxieties of dispossession: whiteness, history, and Australia's war in Viet Nam -- 2. Reconciliation in and out of perspective: white knowing, seeing, curating and being at home in and against Indigenous sovereignty -- 3. Racism, foreigner communities and the onto-pathology of white Australian subjectivity -- 4. Thoughts on a politics of whiteness in a (never quite post) colonial country: abolitionism, essentialism and incommensurability -- 5. Racial positioning, privilege and public debate -- 6. Whiteness, epistemology and Indigenous representation -- 7. Destabilising or recuperating whiteness? (un)mapping 'the self' of agentic learning discourses -- 8. Social work theory and practice: the invisibility of whiteness -- 9. Decentring white men: critical reflections on masculinity and whites studies -- |
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10. Frontier theory: displacement and disavowal in the writing of white nations -- 11. 'A lovely land ... by shadows dark untainted'?: whiteness and early Queensland women's writing -- 12. False whiteness: 'passing' and the stolen generations -- 13. Terrains of migrancy and whiteness: how British migrants locate themselves in Australia -- 14. Differentiating whiteness: white Australia, white masculinities and Aboriginal reconcilitation -- 15. Whiteness in constructions of Australian nationhood: Indigenes, immigrants and governmentality -- 16. Borderline anxieties: what whitening the Irish has to do with keeping out asylum seekers -- 17. Refugees and the coloniality of power: border-crossers of postcolonial whiteness |
| Summary |
With its focus on Australia, this text 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 |
| Analysis |
Sociology (Australia) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library) |
| Subject |
Sociology (Australia)
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Australia -- Race relations.
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National characteristics, Australian.
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Ethnocentrism -- Australia.
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Race awareness -- Australia.
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Race discrimination -- Australia.
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Whites -- Race identity -- Australia.
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Whites -- Australia -- Attitudes.
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Racism -- Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Public opinion.
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National charactreristics -- Australia
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
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| Author |
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
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Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, editor
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Ebooks Corporation.
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| LC no. |
2005440899 |
| ISBN |
9780855754655 |
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0855754656 |
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