Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contributors
  3. Introduction
    Creating White Australia: new perspectives on race, whiteness and history
    Jane Carey & Claire McLisky
  4. Part 1: Global framings: Australian whiteness in an international context
  5. 1: White, British, and European: historicising identity in settler societies
    Ann Curthoys
  6. 2: Reworking the tailings: new gold histories and the cultural landscape
    Benjamin Mountford & Keir Reeves
  7. 3: Trans/national history and disciplinary amnesia: historicising White Australia at two fins de siècles
    Leigh Boucher
  8. Part 2: Whiteness on Indigenous missions and reserves
  9. 4: Colouring (in) virtue? Evangelicalism, work and whiteness on Maloga Mission
    Claire McLisky
  10. 5: ‘A most lowering thing for a lady’: aspiring to respectable whiteness on Ramahyuck Mission, 1885–1900
    Joanna Cruickshank
  11. 6: Calculating colour: whiteness, anthropological research and the Cummeragunja Aboriginal Reserve, May and June 1938
    Fiona Davis
  12. Part 3: Writing and performing race: creation and disavowal
  13. 7: Theatre or corroboree, what’s in a name? Framing Indigenous Australian 19th-century commercial performance practices
    Maryrose Casey
  14. 8: The Wild White Man: ‘an event under description’
    Maggie Scott
  15. 9: Perpetuating White Australia: Aboriginal self-representation, white editing and preferred stereotypes
    Jennifer Jones
  16. Part 4: Gender and whiteness
  17. 10: A word of evidence: shared tales about infanticide and others-not-us in colonial Victoria
    Marguerita Stephens
  18. 11: White anxieties and the articulation of race: the women’s movement and the making of White Australia, 1910s–1930s
    Jane Carey
  19. 12: Whiteness, maternal feminism and the working mother, 1900–1960
    Shurlee Swain, Patricia Grimshaw & Ellen Warne

     
  20. Copyright