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Author
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
352 p. : ill.
Description
"In Muslims in Australia, Nahid Kabir seeks to understand the basis of mainstream Australians fear by tracing Muslim history since the Afghan settlement in 1860. In social, economic and political contexts, the author compares the Muslim experience with that of other racial and religious minorities in Australia. In the Colonial and 'White Australia' periods, she evaluates their position with that of the Aborigines, Chinese, Japanese, Irish and Germans....
Author
Series
Borderlines (Minneapolis Minn.) volume 21
Publication Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xi, 269 p. : ill.
Publication Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (363 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Description
"This is an anthology of writing about what it is really like to grow up Asian-Australian. Including contributions from established writers, public figures and exciting new talents, this diverse and unpredictable collection throws out the cliches and takes readers behind the stereotypes" -- Provided by publisher.
Series
Publication Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (65 pages) : color illustrations, photographs.
Description
Cultural diversity is central to Australia's national identity, however many Australians regularly experience racism. Racist attitudes are common in the form of unconscious bias, intolerance and prejudice; at its worst, racial discrimination manifests in violence and abuse. This book reveals the extent, causes and impacts of racism. What are people's rights under racial discrimination and hatred laws? How can we can address racist attitudes and behaviours...
Author
Publication Date
2011, c2008
Physical Desc
440 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports.
Description
Ochre and Rust takes nine Aboriginal and colonial artefacts from their museum shelves, and positions them at the centre of these gripping, poignant tales set in the heart of Australia's frontier zone.
Series
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (65 pages) : color illustrations, tables, graphs.
Description
Australians are largely embracing of multiculturalism and welcoming of those born overseas, while national identity regularly influences public debate in Australia, without being clearly defined. How do Australians living in a multicultural society identify with their nation; how do they view themselves as citizens? This book examines Australia's cultural diversity, social cohesion and multiculturalism. It also discusses the symbols and attitudes...
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations, tables
Description
"Whether in the form of warfare, dispossession, forced migration, or social prejudice, Australia's sense of nationhood was born from--and continues to be defined by--experiences of violence. Legacies of Violence probes this brutal legacy through case studies that range from the colonial frontier to modern domestic spaces, exploring themes of empathy, isolation, and Australians' imagined place in the world. Moving beyond the primacy that is typically...
Author
Publication Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations
Description
"Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia" extends debates on identities, cultures and notions of race and racism into new directions as it analyses the forms of interactional identities of African migrants in Australia. It de-naturalises the commonplace assumptions and imaginations about the cultures and identities of African diaspora communities, and probes the relevance and usefulness of identity markers such as country of origin, nationality,...
Author
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (214 pages)
Description
In Australia, a 'tribe' of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. This book explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, attempt to help without harming. 'White anti-racists' find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds - a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies. These dilemmas are fueled by tension...
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Description
In Chinese Australians: Politics, Engagement and Resistance key scholars of Chinese-Australian history explore how Chinese Australians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced the communities in which they lived on a civic or individual level.
Publication Date
2007
Physical Desc
xix, 279 p. : ill., map.
Description
This volume gathers together research by ten scholars engaging with multicultural discourse in Australia and Germany. The term 'polyculturalism' rather than 'multiculturalism' is employed deliberately to re-open a space in which the workings of discourse on culturally diverse societies, both as archive or practice, and as intervention, can be considered in greater depth. The inter-cultural perspective and wide range of disciplinary affiliations exhibited...
Author
Publication Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (201 pages).
Description
"Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia" explores how cultural identities are contested in postcolonial spaces by subjects of nation, color and culture in early childhood settings. The book uses participatory action research methodology to gather how language was used in early childhood settings to "speak" of the interaction between the cultural groups of "self" and "other" in Australia. Ganga, the largest river in India is used as a metaphor by...


