Warwick Anderson

The Cultivation of Whiteness

Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia

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Produktbeschreibung

In this controversial study, Anderson provides the first full account of the shocking experimentation in the 1920s and '30s on Aboriginal people of the central deserts--the Australian equivalent of the infamous Tuskegee Experiment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9780465003051
• ISBN-10: 0465003052
• Artikelnr.: 21597286

Autorenporträt

Warwick Anderson is Director of the History of Health Sciences Program and Vice Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Australia, he now lives in San Francisco.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
The Temperate South
1. Antipodean Britons 11
2. A Cultivated Society 41
The Northern Tropics
3. No Place for a White Man 73
4. The Making of the Tropical White Man 95
5. White Triumph in the Tropics? 139
6. Whitening the Nation 165
Aboriginal Australia
7. From Deserts the Prophets Come 191
8. The Reproductive Frontier 225
Conclusion: Biology and Nation 253
Abbreviations 259
Notes 261
Bibliography of Works Cited 329
Index 381