Made to Matter - White Fathers, Stolen Generations (Paperback)

Most members of the Stolen Generations had white fathers or grandfathers. Who were these white men? This book analyses the stories of white fathers, men who were positioned as key players in the plans to assimilate Aboriginal people by 'breeding out the colour'. The plan to 'breed out the colour' ascribed enormous power to white sperm and white paternity; to 'elevate', 'uplift' and disperse Aboriginality in whiteness, to blank out, to aid cultural forgetting. The policy was a cruel failure, not least because it conflated skin colour with culture and assumed that Aboriginal women and their children would acquiesce to produce 'future whites'. It also assumed that white men would comply as ready appendages, administering 'whiteness' through marriage or white sperm. This book attempts to put textual flesh on the bodies of these white fathers, and in doing so, builds on and complicates the view of white fathers in this history, and the histories of whiteness to which they are biopolitically related.

General

Imprint:	Sydney University Press
Country of origin:	Australia
Release date:	July 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - A5: Tankobon
Pages:	148
ISBN-13:	978-1-920899-97-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General
LSN:	1-920899-97-9
Barcode:	9781920899974

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