Research Catalog

Title

Australian race relations, 1788-1993 / Andrew Markus.

Author

Markus, Andrew

Publication

St. Leonard's, NSW, Australia : Allen & Unwin, 1994.

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Details

Description

xvi, 266 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Examines the historical context of contemporary race relations; development of ideas on race in western culture; dispossession of Indigenous peoples; non-European immigrants in the nineteenth century; segregation in the workforce; the White Australia Policy; assimilation 1945 to 1965 of immigrants and Aboriginal peoples; policy directions and attitudes to racial discrimination from the mid-60's to the early 90's.

Series Statement

Australian experience

Uniform Title

Australian experience

Subject

• Minorities > Australia > History
• Racism > Australia > History
• Immigrants > Australia > History
• Aboriginal Australians
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
• Australia > Race relations > History
• Australia > Emigration and immigration > History
• Australia > Ethnic relations

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-254) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The idea of race in western culture -- 2. Dispossession -- 3. Non-European immigrants in the nineteenth century -- 4. Racial segregation and the workforce -- 5. White Australia, 1890-1945 -- 6. The era of assimilation, 1945-65 -- 7. The end of racial discrimination?

ISBN

1863735542 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^94236639^

OCLC

• 32491075
• SCSB-11615850

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library