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Spinning the dream : assimilation in Australia 1950-1970 / Anna Haebich

Record no:

67152

Call no:

305.8991 HAE

Author:

Haebich, Anna

Publisher:

North Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Press

Year:

2008

Description:

461 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Assimilation (Sociology) - Australia;
Minorities - Government policy - Australia;
Australia - Ethnic relations;
Immigrants - Australia;
Noongar (Australian people) - History;

Coolbaroo Club;
Australia - Race relations;
Australia - Social conditions - 20th century;
Australian Aborigines - Government relations;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Government relations - History;

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Isbn:

9781921361074

Type:

Book

Abstract:

"A history of the policy of Assimilation in Australia as applied to Aboriginal people and non-English speaking immigrants from the 1950s to the 1970s".

Contents:

Part I. White nation -- 1. Anxious world -- 2. New white Australia -- Part II. Selling assimilation -- 3. Promises -- 4. Practices -- Part III. Assimilation in Nyungar country -- 5. Good citizens -- 6. Happy families -- 7. Living the dream (with Lauren

Marsh) -- Part IV. Cracks in the mirror -- 8. Paradox -- 9. Fragments.

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Result	Links	Location	Library	Shelf no	Status	Year	Volume	Copy
1		History	Western Australian Museum	305.800994 HAE	On Loan