Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory 1880-1939 by Russell McGregor

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Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers. Stamps and stickers on inside pages. Stamp on top foredge. General wear to book corners and edges. Mark on right foredge. Marks on back cover. Binding at front has been reinforced.

In Imagined Destinies, Russell McGregor explores the origins and the gradual demise of the 'doomed race' theory, which was unquestioned in nineteenth-century European thinking and remained uncontested until the 1930s. White perceptions of Australia's indigenous people and their future had been shaped by Enlightenment ideas about progress, Darwin's new theories on the survival of the fittest, and other European philosophical concepts. (back cover)