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Doctoring National Identity 2: Ending ‘White Australia’ HI269 Lecture 10.

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1 Doctoring National Identity 2: Ending ‘White Australia’ HI269 Lecture 10

2 White Australia’s Black Heart

3 ‘The archaic Caucasian’ Racial Understandings of Australia’s Indigenes ‘prognostic’: Aborigines as Caucasians, degenerated (or ‘stalled’) by their environment ‘genealogical’; Aborigines as precursors to contemporary Caucasians (Europeans)

4 The racial sciences of 20 th c Australia Anthropometry (Physical) Anthropology Photography But also: Serology (especially blood grouping) Physiology (especially studies of metabolism) Epidemiology (especially re pathologies of civilisation/contact) Eugenics?

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6 The end of ‘White Australia’ Key Disciplines: Population genetics post WWII Physical and Social anthropology Geography/demography Social trends: Revulsion against eugenics, race science post WWII Rejection of biological determinism Push for Civil Rights

7 From exclusion/expulsion…

8 …To assimilation


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