Dreams and Nightmares of a White Australia: Representing Aboriginal Assimilation in the Mid-twentieth Century

Dreams and Nightmares of a White Australia: Representing Aboriginal Assimilation in the Mid-twentieth Century
ISBN-10
303911722X
ISBN-13
9783039117222
Category
Aboriginal Australians
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Peter Lang
Author
Catriona Elder

Description

Analysis of the assimilation issues and race relations in five novels from the 1950s and 1960s and three non-fiction and texts that were produced in academic and government circles regarding the 'half caste problem' in the 1930s and 1940s; includes overview of assimilation in Australia and definitions of assimilation; management of race relations in Australia; eugenic politics; Aboriginality; 1937 Aboriginal welfare conference; Citizenship for the Aborigines (1944); Australia's Colours Minority: Its place in the community (1947).

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