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'[This] is a pioneering account of the transnational production of whiteness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A work remarkable both for its international breadth and for its sensitivity to local particularity, it is a model for the new global history.

Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds expertly and imaginatively reconstruct how leading white intellectuals and politicians in Australia, South Africa, the United States, and Great Britain fought demands for racial equality and jointly invented new doctrines of racial superiority to justify the maintenance and, in some cases, the reinvigoration of white privilege in every part of the world that Britain either controlled or in which it had once deposited its settlers.

A powerful and sobering history, incisively and elegantly told.' Gary Gerstle, author of American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century

Notes

  • Table Of Contents

    Introduction; Part I. Modern Mobilities:

    1. The coming man: Chinese migration to the Goldfields;

    Part II. Discursive Frameworks:

    2. James Bryce's America and the negro problem;

    3. Charles Pearson's prophecy: 'The day will come';

    4. Theodore Roosevelt: re-asserting racial vigour;

    5. Imperial brotherhood or white: Gandhi in South Africa;

    Part III. Transnational Solidarities:

    6. White Australia points the way;

    7. Defending the Pacific slope;

    8. White ties across the ocean: the Pacific Tour of the US Fleet;

    9. The Union of South Africa: white men reconcile;

    Part IV. Challenge and Consolidation:

    10. International conferences: enmity and amity;

    11. Japanese alienation and imperial ambition;

    12. Racial equality? Paris Peace Conference, 1919;

    13. 'Segregation on a Large Scale': immigration restriction, 1920s;

    Part V. Towards Universal Human Rights:

    14. Rights without distinction.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Carlton, South Hurstville area, Hurstville area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Melbourne University Press , 2008 .
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      Extent: 371p.
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      • Published 24 January 2008
      ISBN: 9780522854787

Works about this Work

Australia in Three Books Julianne Schultz , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 82 no. 2 2023; Meanjin Online 2023;

— Review of Seven Versions of an Australian Badland Ross Gibson , 2002 single work prose ; Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Henry Reynolds , Marilyn Lake , 2008 single work non-fiction

'Reducing my Australia to just three books makes me feel like someone panning for gold in a fast-moving stream filled with the precious metal. If I stand still long enough and shake the pan hard enough, surely just three exceptional nuggets will be left. It’s fair to say that I have a privileged perspective.' (Introduction) 

Tales of Refugees Sweep PM Book Awards Gia Metherell , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 November 2009; (p. 3)
[Review Essay] Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Philippa Mein Smith , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , September vol. 40 no. 3 2009; (p. 378-379)

— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Henry Reynolds , Marilyn Lake , 2008 single work non-fiction
[Review Essay] Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Rachel Bright , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 3 no. 8 2008;

— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Henry Reynolds , Marilyn Lake , 2008 single work non-fiction
[Review Essay] Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Cassandra Pybus , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , December vol. 5 no. 3 2008; (p. 89.1-89.2)

— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Henry Reynolds , Marilyn Lake , 2008 single work non-fiction
Global Take on Blackest Days Margaret Smith , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 26 March no. 422 2008; (p. 54)

— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Henry Reynolds , Marilyn Lake , 2008 single work non-fiction
[Review Essay] Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Cassandra Pybus , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , December vol. 5 no. 3 2008; (p. 89.1-89.2)

— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Henry Reynolds , Marilyn Lake , 2008 single work non-fiction
[Review Essay] Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Philippa Mein Smith , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , September vol. 40 no. 3 2009; (p. 378-379)

— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Henry Reynolds , Marilyn Lake , 2008 single work non-fiction
[Review Essay] Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Rachel Bright , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 3 no. 8 2008;

— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Henry Reynolds , Marilyn Lake , 2008 single work non-fiction
Australia in Three Books Julianne Schultz , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 82 no. 2 2023; Meanjin Online 2023;

— Review of Seven Versions of an Australian Badland Ross Gibson , 2002 single work prose ; Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Henry Reynolds , Marilyn Lake , 2008 single work non-fiction

'Reducing my Australia to just three books makes me feel like someone panning for gold in a fast-moving stream filled with the precious metal. If I stand still long enough and shake the pan hard enough, surely just three exceptional nuggets will be left. It’s fair to say that I have a privileged perspective.' (Introduction) 

Tales of Refugees Sweep PM Book Awards Gia Metherell , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 November 2009; (p. 3)
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