Whitening Race

Name: Whitening Race
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780855754655
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Essays in social and cultural criticism

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Whitening Race examines the invisibility of whiteness as the default racial norm, focusing on Australia’s unique relations between migration, Indigenous dispossession, and racial identity. This interdisciplinary collection challenges prevailing concepts by critically analysing how whiteness shapes identity, nationalism, and law, thereby perpetuating colonial structures.
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This book is ideal for scholars and students in cultural studies, sociology, indigenous studies, and Australian history, as well as readers interested in critical race theory and postcolonial analysis.

Using the new theoretical cultural critique of 'whiteness' as an object of research, Whitening Race engages with relations between migration, Indigenous dispossession and whiteness in Australia. It creates a new intellectual space that investigates the nature of racialised conditions and their role in reproducing colonising relations in Australia.

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Whitening Race comes to fruition at a time in world history and global politics when questions about race require critical investigation and engagement. Since the 1990s, international scholars have developed a powerful cultural critique by making whiteness an analytical object of research. Whiteness has become the invisible norm against which other races are judged in the construction of identity, representation, subjectivity, nationalism, and the law.

With its focus on Australia, the book engages with relations between migration, Indigenous dispossession, and whiteness. It creates a new intellectual space that investigates the nature of racialised conditions and their role in reproducing colonising relations in Australia.

Aileen Moreton-Robinson has brought together scholars from a range of disciplines: philosophy, cultural and gender studies, education, social work, sociology, and literary studies. All engage critically with the location of the social and discursive construction of whiteness.

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Whitening Race is hailed as a groundbreaking and provocative work. Graeme Turner praises it as a vital rethinking of racial constructs in Australian culture, while Ghassan Hage commends its sharp combination of research, theory, and politics, highlighting its significance in understanding modern whiteness.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780855754655

Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 January 2004

Country: Australia

Imprint: Aboriginal Studies Press

Illustration: illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 500g

Pages: 320

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Dr Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Geonpul woman from Quandamooka. Previous to her appointment as an Australian Research Council Fellow, she taught Indigenous Studies at Griffith University and Women's Studies at Flinders University. She has been previously published in the areas of native title, whiteness, race and feminism. She is President of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association.