Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880-1939 - Russell McGregor - Books - ACLS History E-Book Project - 9781597408103 - July 12, 2011
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Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880-1939 Large type / large print edition

Russell McGregor

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Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880-1939 Large type / large print edition

White Australians once confidentlyandmdash;if regretfullyandmdash;believed that the Aboriginal people were doomed to extinction. Even in the 1950s, Australian children were still being taught that the Australian Aboriginals were a dying race who would eventually disappear from the face of the earth. In Imagined Destinies, Russell McGregor explores the origins and the gradual demise of the 'doomed race' theory, which was unquestioned in nineteenth-century European thinking and remained uncontested until the 1930s. White perceptions of Australia's indigenous people and their future had been shaped by Enlightenment ideas about progress, Darwin's new theories on the survival of the fittest, and other European philosophical concepts. Imagined Destinies provides a challenging analysis and history of an idea which has exerted a powerful influence over white Australian attitudes to, and policies for, Aboriginal people. Indeed, its long shadow may still be with us.


342 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 12, 2011
ISBN13 9781597408103
Publishers ACLS History E-Book Project
Pages 342
Dimensions 157 × 234 × 27 mm   ·   639 g
Language English  

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