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The Outsiders Within: Telling Australia's Indigenous-Asian Story | 
 enlarge | Author: Peta Stephenson
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $30.00
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Sales Rank: 1474774
Media: Paperback
Pages: 250
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0868408360
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800994
EAN: 9780868408361
ASIN: 0868408360
Publication Date: August 30, 2007
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Product Description
The Outsiders Within is an engaging account of the ways in which over hundreds of years Indigenous and Asian people across northern and central Australia have traded, intermarried and built hybrid communities. It is also a disturbing expose of the persistent, sometimes paranoid, efforts of successive national governments to police, marginalize and outlaw these encounters. Stephenson focuses on four key moments: the outlawing of Macassan-Yolngu trading in 1906; the separation of Asians and Aborigines under laws introduced between 1897 and 1911; the internment of people of mixed Japanese-Indigenous ancestry during World War II. Finally she looks at the revival of hatred against Australia's 'outsiders within' in 1996 when Pauline Hanson, MP, leader of the extreme right party, One Nation, yoked Aborigines and Asians, claiming they represented a common threat to Australia's social and political cohesion. The Outsiders Within brings to life the different views and experiences of those involved by drawing on family narratives and oral histories as well as official documents. Its story is set within the larger ongoing debate about Australia's identity and shows how these four historical moments are now being refracted through plays, paintings, installations, and novels.
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