Whitening Race: Essays in social and cultural criticism

Author:   Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Publisher:   Aboriginal Studies Press
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9780855754655


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 January 2004
Format:   Paperback
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Using the new theoretical cultural critique of 'whiteness' as an object of research, Whitening Race engages with relations between migration, Indigenous dispossession and whiteness in Australia. It creates a new intellectual space that investigates the nature of racialised conditions and their role in reproducing colonising relations in Australia.

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Author:   Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Publisher:   Aboriginal Studies Press
Imprint:   Aboriginal Studies Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780855754655


ISBN 10:   0855754656
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 January 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Australians are witnessing what is perhaps the most successful project of White Restoration ever witnessed in the West. This has triggered new approaches to the study of whiteness that are particularly sharp in the way they combine research, theory and politics. This exciting collection offers some of the best of what these new approaches have to offer. --Ghassan Hage, associate professor of anthropology, University of Sydney Whitening Race is a challenging and useful collection, which aims at nothing less than remaking contemporary Australian understandings of the cultural construction of race. --Graeme Turner, professor and director, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland


Whitening Race is a challenging and useful collection, which aims at nothing less than remaking contemporary Australian understandings of the cultural construction of race. --Graeme Turner, professor and director, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland


"""""Whitening Race"" is a challenging and useful collection, which aims at nothing less than remaking contemporary Australian understandings of the cultural construction of race."" --Graeme Turner, professor and director, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland ""Australians are witnessing what is perhaps the most successful project of White Restoration ever witnessed in the West. This has triggered new approaches to the study of whiteness that are particularly sharp in the way they combine research, theory and politics. This exciting collection offers some of the best of what these new approaches have to offer."" --Ghassan Hage, associate professor of anthropology, University of Sydney"


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Dr Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Geonpul woman from Quandamooka. Previous to her appointment as an Australian Research Council Fellow, she taught Indigenous Studies at Griffith University and Women's Studies at Flinders University. She has been previously published in the areas of native title, whiteness, race and feminism. She is President of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association.

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