- Bib ID:
- 1415922
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Dixson, Miriam, 1930-
- Description:
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- Sydney : UNSW Press, 1999
- viii, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0868406651 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Examination of the nature of Australian national identity; includes reference to Aborigines discussed in terms of violence, racism, guilt, remorse and memory; questions the characterisation of race relations through forgetting and silence (Stanner) and violence (Rowley); argues that simplified historical narratives about race relations impede reparative energy in race relations; psychological understanding of racism; theories of the nation; crisis of history and time in Australia and its impact on identity.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [209]-210.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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