Re-Orienting Whiteness
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This is the first major scholarly collection of historians' contributions to whiteness studies. It argues that historians are uniquely placed to, firstly, describe the tensions between postcolonial methodologies and whiteness studies.

Table of Contents:
Re-Orienting Whiteness: A New Agenda for the Field / Jane Carey, Leigh Boucher and Katherine Ellinghaus * PART I: HISTORIANS APPROACHING THE STUDY OF WHITENESS * Whiteness and 'the Imperial Turn' / Angela Woollacott * The Strange Career of Whiteness: Miscegenation, Assimilation, Abdication / Louise Newman * 'Whiteness,' Geopolitical Reconfiguration and the Settler Empire in Nineteenth Century Victorian Politics / Leigh Boucher * PART II: WHITENESS AS A TRANSNATIONAL COLONIAL PRODUCTION * Essay to be announced / Warwick Anderson * 'The Question of Miscegenation in the Politics of English Speaking Countries in the early Twentieth Century / Henry Reynolds * 'Being Thankful for their Birth in a Christian land': Interrogating Intersections between whiteness and child rescue / Shurlee Swain, Margot Hillel and Belinda Sweeney * 'I followed England round the world': The Rise of Trans-imperial Anglo-Saxon Exceptionism, and the Spatial Narratives of Nineteenth-century British Settler Colonies of the Pacific Rim / Penny Edmonds * PART III: WHITENESS AS A SETTLER COLONIAL IDENTITY * White is Wonderful: Emotional Conversion and Subjective Formation / Marilyn Lake * The Fabrication of White Homemaking: Louisa Meredith in Colonial Tasmania / Patricia Grimshaw and Ann Standish * Reading the Shadows of Whiteness: A Case of Racial Clarity on Queensland's Colonial Borderlands, 1880-1900 / Tracey Banivanua-Mar * The Deluded White Woman and the Expatriation of the White Child / Margaret Allen * PART IV: WHITENESS AND THE IMAGINING/MANAGING OF COLONIAL POPULATIONS * 'Woman's Objective - A Perfect Race': Whiteness, Eugenics and the Racial Anxieties of interwar Australia / Jane Carey * 'Born and Nurtured in Darkest Ignorance': White Imaginings of Aboriginal Maternity / Liz Conor * Re-thinking 'Squaw Men' and 'Pakeha-Maori': Legislating white masculinity in New Zealand and Canada, 1860-1900 / Angela Wanhalla * Into the White Man's Kingdom: Whiteness and Indigenous Assimilation Policies in the United States and Australia, 1880s-1960s / Katherine Ellinghaus * Conclusions / Jane Carey, Leigh Boucher and Katherine Ellinghaus

About the Author :
Katherine Ellinghaus is a Monash Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. Leigh Boucher is a Lecturer in the School of Historical Studies, Monash University. Jane Carey is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History, University of Melbourne.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780230101289
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • ISBN-10: 0230101283
  • Publisher Date: 27 Oct 2009
  • Language: English


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