Rethinking the Racial Moment: Essays on the Colonial Encounter - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443828629 ISBN 13: 9781443828628

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

In recent years ‘race’ has fallen out of historiographical fashion, being eclipsed by seemingly more benign terms such as ‘culture,’ ‘ethnicity’ and ‘difference.’ This timely and highly readable collection of essays re-energises the debate by carefully focusing our attention on local articulations of race and their intersections with colonialism and its aftermath. In Rethinking the Racial Moment: Essays on the Colonial Encounter Alison Holland and Barbara Brookes have produced a collection of studies that shift our historical understanding of colonialism in significant new directions. Their generous and exciting brief will ensure that the book has immediate appeal for multiple readers engaged in critical theory, as well as those more specifically involved in Australian and New Zealand history. Collectively, they offer new and invigorating approaches to understanding colonialism and cultural encounters in history via the interpretive (not merely temporal) frame of ‘the moment.’

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About the Author

Alison Holland is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She teaches Aboriginal History as well as Australian environmental history. She has written extensively on aspects of Aboriginal and women s history with a particular focus on themes of gender, race and citizenship in colonial contexts. Barbara Brookes is Professor of History at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. She is the author of Abortion in England, 1900 1967 (Croom Helm, 1988) and co-editor of five collections of essays encompassing aspects of New Zealand s social, medical and cultural history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1443828629
• ISBN 13: 9781443828628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Barbara Brookes, Alison Holland