Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism

by Aileen Moreton-Robinson (Editor)

Overview

With its focus on Australia, Whitening Race 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780855754655
Publisher:	Aboriginal Studies Press
Publication date:	11/01/2004
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Dr Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Geonpul woman from Quandamooka (Moreton Bay). 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.

Editorial Reviews

"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

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