The cultivation of whiteness : science, health and racial destiny in Australia
Examines the notion of 'whiteness' as a flexible category in scientific and public debates. Also provides the first full account of experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on Aboriginal people in the central deserts. Anderson is the founder of the Centre for Studies of Health and Society at the University of Melbourne, Vic
Print Book, English, ©2006
Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, Vic., ©2006
History
ix, 390 pages [14] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780522851694, 052285169X
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Introduction
The temperate south: 1. Antipodean Britons
2. A cultivated society
The northern tropics: 3. No place for a white man
4. The making of the tropical white man
5. White triumph in the tropics?
6. Whitening the nation
Aboriginal Australia: 7. From deserts the prophets came
8. The reproductive frontier
Conclusion: biology and nation
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography of work cited
Index