Doctoring National Identity 2: Ending ‘White Australia’ HI269 Lecture 10
White Australia’s Black Heart
‘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)
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?
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
From exclusion/expulsion…
…To assimilation