Re-Orienting Whiteness
This book brings together historians from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe to historicize constructions of whiteness as a colonial formation. Confronting the privilege inherent in the invisibility of contemporary whiteness req
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Re-Orienting Whiteness Edited by
Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey, and Katherine Ellinghaus
RE- ORIENTING WHITENESS
Copyright © Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey, and Katherine Ellinghaus, 2009. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-61885-5 All rights reserved. Chapter 10 is a slightly revised version of “Making Tasmania Home,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 28, nos 1 and 2 (2007): 1–17, published by the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright © 2007 by Frontiers Editorial Collective, Inc. Photo Credits: Cover image: “Naked for Dinner.” Published in the Lone Hand, September 2, 1907. Figure 14.1: “A Gin and Piccaninny,” reproduced from the Rex Van Kivell Collection, NK10389, Courtesy of the National Library of Australia; Figure 14.2: “Portrait of an Aboriginal Mother and Child, Canning Stock Route, Western Australia, 1942,” reproduced from the National Library of Australia, nla.pic-vn4463084, with the kind permission of Roslyn Poignant; Figure 14.3: “Earthly Mother,” William Ricketts Sanctuary reprinted with the permission of Parks Victoria; Figure 14.4: “An Old Woman,” in Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand, George French Angus, courtesy of the State Library of Victoria; Figure 14.5: “A Curiosity in Her Own Country,” cartoon by Phil May reprinted from the Bulletin, 1888. First published in 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-38157-9 DOI 10.1057/9780230101289
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: November 2009 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Contents
Acknowledgments 1
Re-Orienting Whiteness: A New Agenda for the Field Jane Carey, Leigh Boucher, and Katherine Ellinghaus Part I
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Historians Approaching the Study of Whiteness
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Whiteness and “the Imperial Turn” Angela Woollacott
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The Strange Career of Whiteness: Miscegenation, Assimilation, Abdication Louise Newman
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“Whiteness,” Geopolitical Reconfiguration, and the Settler Empire in Nineteenth-Century Victorian Politics Leigh Boucher
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Part II
Whiteness as a Transnational Colonial Production
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Traveling White Warwick Anderson
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The Question of Miscegenation in the Politics of English-Speaking Countries in the Early Twentieth Century Henry Reynolds
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