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1 online resource (463 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; About the Author; Dedication; Abbreviations; Table of Contents; Spin; Introduction; I White Nation; 1. Anxious World; Mixed messages; Age of anxiety; Anxious nation; Cold War paranoia; Communists and Aboriginal issues; Changing the face of the nation; Universal human rights; Race and racism; The new world order; Indigenous rights; Protest at home and abroad; 2. New White Australia; Forging a white nation (1901-1950); White Australia and Indigenous people; Keeping Australia white; Dreaming up a new White Australia; Imagining the nation; Tools of persuasion; The PR industry |
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Government infrastructureSymbols of persuasion; Australian way of life; Australian family; Australian suburbs; The power of not knowing; The knowledge makers; Academic research and migrant assimilation; II Selling Assimilation; 3. Promises; Selling migrant assimilation; Persuading settler Australians; Reaching migrants; Performing good citizenship; Selling Aboriginal assimilation; Campaign planning; Campaign materials; Spreading the message; Mixed messages; Continuing criticisms overseas; Conflicting visions; 4. Practices; Assimilating European migrants; 'Populate or perish' |
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Models of assimilationAustralianisation; Joining the workforce; Living in the community; Taking up citizenship; The rise and fall of the Good Neighbour Council; Aboriginal assimilation; Federal and state: divided responsibilities; The war years: a taste of freedom; Extending a helping hand; Hasluck and a new national leadership; A national forum; A 'long, slow job'; Models of phased assimilation; Assimilation in the Northern Territory; Reforming federal legislation; A national definition of assimilation; III Assimilation in Nyungar Country; 5. Good Citizens; Case study: Western Australia |
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Conflicting visionsThe bumpy road to assimilation; Assimilation's targets: a test case; Native Welfare Committees; Good citizens; 'Not slaves, not citizens'; Biding time; Citizenship and drinking rights; 6. Happy Families; The sorry road to nowhere; Promise One: A secure family unit of father, mother and children; Schooling; Mainstreaming child welfare; Promise Two: A home in the suburbs with thebasic comforts of modern life; Allawah Grove -- a transitional housing community; Forever in training; Nyungar responses; Promise Three: Secure employment and a regular income; Social security |
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7. Living the Dream (with Lauren Marsh)Aboriginal people in Perth; A state of segregation; The history of the Coolbaroo League; The Coolbaroo League and the Department of Native Affairs; The Coolbaroo dances; Using the media -- the Westralian Aborigine; IV Cracks in the Mirror; 8. Paradox; A paradox?; Modern, primitive, kitsch; Modernism in Australia; The cultural middlemen; Corroboree 1954; Creating the ballet; Good intentions, mixed results; 9. Fragments; Imagining assimilation; The 'disappearing migrant'; Between two worlds |
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'Wanderer between two worlds' -- the narrative of Albert (Elea) Namatjira |
| Summary |
In Spinning the Dream, multi-award-winning historian Anna Haebich re-evaluates the experience of Assimilation in Australia, providing a meticulously researched and masterfully written assessment of its implications for Australia's Indigenous and ethnic minorities and for immigration and refugee policy |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Assimilation (Sociology) -- Australia
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Australia
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Minorities -- Government policy -- Australia
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Immigrants -- Government policy -- Australia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy
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Assimilation (Sociology)
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Immigrants -- Government policy
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Minorities -- Government policy
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Social conditions
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Aborigines
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Assimilation Soziologie
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Einwanderer
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Rassenpolitik
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Soziale Integration
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Aboriginer -- statlig politik.
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Minoritetspolitik -- Australien -- 1900-talet.
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Aboriginer -- kulturell assimilation -- Australien -- 1950-1970.
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Australia -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Australia
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Australien
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Australien -- sociala förhållanden -- 1945-
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Aborigines.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781925160949 |
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1925160947 |
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