y separately published work icon Unmasking Whiteness : Race Relations and Reconciliation anthology   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Unmasking Whiteness : Race Relations and Reconciliation
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Argues that all white people in Australia benefit from racial privilege and receive unearned social benefits as the inheritors of a racially based system of wealth and privilege. Shows how this disadvantage can be understood and how whites should be made to give reparation to the dispossessed.

Notes

  • Aboriginal content.
  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • Contents indexed selectively.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Nathan, Holland Park - Mount Gravatt area, Brisbane - South East, Brisbane, Queensland,:Queensland Studies Centre, Griffith University , 1999 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Psst ... I Wannabe White, Lillian Holt , single work autobiography (p. 39-44)
Clean White Girls : Assimilation and Women's Work, Francesca Bartlett , single work criticism
In her essay, Bartlett analyses 'the narrative of cleanliness,' its role in assimilationist discourse and dissemination through magazines, newspapers and documentaries, and its application and impact upon Indigenous girls lives as represented in a number of Indigenous life-writing texts.
 (p. 52-67)
White Blindfolds and Black Armbands: The Uses of Whiteness Theory for Reading Australian Cultural Production, Carole Ferrier , single work criticism
'Analyses or descriptions of the history of race relations (and cultural production) in what has been called Australia for about a hundred years, have frequently been informed by two orientations that might be simply categorised as the white blindfold and the black armband positions. In many cases, these two mindsets can be observed in other Western cultures although the interaction between them, and the society around them, gets played out differently in particular places at particular times.' (Extract)
 (p. 68-78)
Pseudo-Hyphens and Barbaric/Binaries : Anglo-Celticity and the Cultural Politics of Tolerance, Fiona Jean Nicoll , single work criticism
'[T]he point being made is not that the discourse of enrichment places Anglo-Celtic culture in a more important position than other migrant cultures. If this was the case, it would simply be reflecting reality. More importantly, this discourse assigns to migrant cultures a different mode of existence to Anglo-Celtic culture. While Anglo-Celtic culture merely and unquestionably exists, migrant cultures exist for the latter. (Ghassan Hage)' (Extract)
 (p. 124-133)
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