The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in AustraliaThe Cultivation of Whiteness is an award-winning history of scientific ideas about race and place in Australia from the time of the first European settlement through World War II. Chronicling the extensive use of biological theories and practices in the construction and "protection" of whiteness, Warwick Anderson describes how a displaced "Britishness" (or whiteness) was defined by scientists and doctors in relation to a harsh, strange environment and in opposition to other races. He also provides the first account of extensive scientific experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on poor whites in tropical Australia and on Aboriginal people in the central deserts. "[Anderson] writes with passion, wit, and panache, and the principal virtues of The Cultivation of Whiteness are the old-fashioned ones of thoroughness, accuracy, and impeccable documentation. . . . [His] sensitive study is a model of how contentious historical issues can be confronted."--W. F. Bynum, Times Literary Supplement "One of the virtues of The Cultivation of Whiteness is that it brings together aspects of Australian life and history that are now more often separated--race and environment, blood and soil, medicine and geography, tropical science and urban health, biological thought and national policy, Aboriginality and immigration, the body and the mind. The result is a rich and subtle history of ideas that is both intellectual and organic, and that vividly evokes past states of mind and their lingering, haunting power."--Tom Griffiths, Sydney Morning Herald |
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... American paperback printing by Duke University Press , 2006 All rights reserved Printed in the United States on acid - free paper Published by arrangement with Basic Books , a member of the Perseus Books Group . Library of Congress ...
... American colonial medicine in the Philippines and American public health more generally . But now I looked again at my Austra- lian research notes and decided to make something more of them , this time focusing on race and medical ...
... American edition , explaining some arcane Australian references and changing the emphasis of the introduction and conclusion . In conducting research for this book I have incurred a debt to countless li- brarians and archivists . I ...
... America , of flawed yet occasionally sophisticated scientific and social theories of human difference.7 Rather , I have chosen to study the midlevel , mundane theorizing that commonly occurs when one does science or practices medicine ...
... American critiques of the concept of race . The popular appeal of the concept of race has apparently withstood its postwar decline in scientific validity . If only the scientists who had put so much effort into constructing , and ...
Contents
Antipodean Britons | 11 |
A Cultivated Society | 41 |
No Place for a White Man | 73 |
The Making of the Tropical White Man | 95 |
White Triumph in the Tropics? | 139 |
Whitening the Nation | 165 |
From Deserts the Prophets Come | 191 |
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The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia Warwick Anderson No preview available - 2005 |