Race Relations in Colonial Queensland: A History of Exclusion, Exploitation and Extermination by Raymond Evans, Kay Saunders, Kathryn Cronin

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior has sunned. Tiny tear to spine top back now reinforced with book tape.

Racism was central to the society that developed in tropical and sub-tropical Australia.

This thorough study of the social and historical situation that gave rise to this racism is a major landmark in Australian historiography. Originally published in 1975, this book was the first to deal with the problem of racism in the Australian context in a theoretical and structured manner and to incorporate all the major ethnic minorities.

The blend of social, economic, military, eugenic and sexual fears underlying White Australia is clearly revealed. Frontier conflict, Aboriginal resistance and white extermination policies, the systematic exploitation of Melanesian indentured labourers, and the often violent competition between Chinese and whites for gold are all examined in detail.

This third edition contains a comprehensive set of prefaces and an additional bibliography covering more recent scholarship. (back cover)