Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0662856
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
The Construction of Race and Racial Identity at the Antipodes of Empire, 1788-1840. The view that Australia was always a racially based society, pursuing racial policies to the detriment of indigenous Australians and our Asian neighbours, is subject to rancorous national debate. Polemical assertion by high profile journalists that race was never a driving force in Australian history is not conducive to understanding complex history, nor are derogatory attacks on historians helpful in explaining the past to our neighbours. Whether colonial Australia was a race-based society remains to be established. With indigenous uncertainty over the demise of ATSIC and rising antagonism among our Islamic neighbours, there is need, as never before, for dispassionate scholarship to provide a complex interpretation of Australia's past.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2006
End Date: 05-2010
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $223,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Historical Studies | Biography | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | History: British
