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'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 which created the Australian nation.
'This book pursues the foundations of white Australia across diverse locales. It also situates the development of Australian whiteness within broader imperial and global influences. As the recent Apology to the Stolen Generations, the Northern Territory Intervention, and controversies over asylum seekers reveal, the legacies of these histories are still very much with us today.' (Publication summary)
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Theatre or Corroboree, What's in a Name? Framing Indigenous Australian 19th-Century Commercial Performance Practices,
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(p. 123-139)'The reception and framing within histories of practice of Indigenous Australian cultural production in the performing arts has been a problematic and contested field for decades. Though, overtime the terms have changed in line with political and social changes and developments...' Casey argues, 'these shifts have been limited by continuing a priori assumptions about theatre in terms of what it is and the implicit assumptions of European cultural ownership of performances that are discussed under the term. These conjectures continue to have impact on what is included, excluded and defined within Australian theatre historiography.' (From author's introduction)
- The Wild White Man : 'An Event under Description', single work criticism (p. 140-155)
- Perpetuating White Australia : Aboriginal Self-Representation, White Editing and Preferred Stereotypes, single work criticism (p. 156-172)
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2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 5 no. 4 2011;
— Review of Creating White Australia 2009 anthology criticism
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Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 5 no. 4 2011;
— Review of Creating White Australia 2009 anthology criticism
