Cultivation of Whiteness Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia

Name: Cultivation of Whiteness Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia
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ISBN: 9780822338406

ISBN-10: 0822338408

ISBN-13: 9780822338406

Edition: 2006

Authors: Warwick Anderson

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"The Cultivation of Whiteness" is an award-winning history of scientific ideas about race and place in Australia from the time of the first European settlement through World War II. Chronicling the extensive use of biological theories and practices in the construction and "protection" of whiteness, Warwick Anderson describes how a displaced "Britishness" (or whiteness) was defined by scientists and doctors in relation to a harsh, strange environment and in opposition to other races. He also provides the first account of extensive scientific experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on poor whites in tropical Australia and on Aboriginal people in the central deserts. "[Anderson] writes with…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 8/9/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.21" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

For twenty years Warwick Anderson, medical doctor and historian of science, has been studying kuru, those who were infected by the disease, and the scientists who identified and investigated it. He is the author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine and Racial Hygiene in the Philippines and The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


The Temperate South



Antipodean Britons



A Cultivated Society


The Northern Tropics



No Place for a White Man



The Making of the Tropical White Man



White Triumph in the Tropics?



Whitening the Nation


Aboriginal Australia



From Deserts the Prophets Come



The Reproductive Frontier


Conclusion: Biology and Nation


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography of Works Cited


Index