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Title Lost in the whitewash : Aboriginal-Asian encounters in Australia, 1901-2001 / edited by Penny Edwards and Shen Yuanfang
Published Canberra : Humanities Research Centre, 2003

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Description viii, 167 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
regular print
Series Humanities Research Centre monograph series ; no. 15
Monograph (Australian National University. Humanities Research Centre) ; no. 15
Contents Something more: towards reconfiguring Australian history / Penny Edwards & Shen Yuanfang -- As strands of plaited music: my Chinese-Aboriginal-Anglo heritage / Jennifer Martiniello -- The golden thread of kinship: mixed marriages between Asians and Aboriginal women during Australia's federation era / Ann McGrath -- Yearning of the hearts / Lucy Dann -- Lucy's journey: a photo-essay / Mayu Kanamori -- Mixed relations: towards reconfiguring Australian history / Regina Ganter -- Anti-minorities history: perspectives on Aboriginal-Asian relations / Minoru Hokari -- Separatism and solidarity: Chinese and Aboriginal sporting connections / Julia Martínez -- A Chinaman in the woodpile, or a Blackfella in the house / John Ah Kit -- Aborigines, Chinese and the Bicentennial: the Inverell District Bicentennial Memorial / Peter Read -- Kung fu ... it means hard work / Hannah McGlade -- Cross-cultural alliances: exploring Aboriginal-Asian literary and cultural production / Peta Stephenson -- Lost in the whitewash: concluding comments / Helen Sham-Ho
Summary This important new book on the area of Aboriginal-Asian identities, ancestries and histories unravels the intricate web of human encounters, spiritual exchanges and cultural traffic between indigenous peoples and Asians in 19th and 20th century Australia
Analysis Ethnic relations
Aborigines
Chinese
Japanese
Race relations
Intermarriage
Historiography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Race relations -- Australia -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- History.
Race relations.
Race relations -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians.
Asians -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
Author Edwards, Penny, 1962-
Shen, Yuanfang, 1956-
Australian National University. Humanities Research Centre.
LC no. 2004401389
ISBN 0731533488 paperback
9780731533480