Spinning the Dream
Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970
Published on 1. March 2008
463 pages
978-1-925160-94-9 (ISBN)
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In Spinning the Dream, multi-award-winning historian Anna Haebich re-evaluates the experience of Assimilation in Australia, providing a meticulously researched and masterfully written assessment of its implications for Australia's Indigenous and ethnic minorities and for immigration and refugee policy.
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Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Abbreviations
- Table of Contents
- Spin
- Introduction
- I White Nation
- 1. Anxious World
- Mixed messages
- Age of anxiety
- Anxious nation
- Cold War paranoia
- Communists and Aboriginal issues
- Changing the face of the nation
- Universal human rights
- Race and racism
- The new world order
- Indigenous rights
- Protest at home and abroad
- 2. New White Australia
- Forging a white nation (1901-1950)
- White Australia and Indigenous people
- Keeping Australia white
- Dreaming up a new White Australia
- Imagining the nation
- Tools of persuasion
- The PR industry
- Government infrastructure
- Symbols of persuasion
- Australian way of life
- Australian family
- Australian suburbs
- The power of not knowing
- The knowledge makers
- Academic research and migrant assimilation
- II Selling Assimilation
- 3. Promises
- Selling migrant assimilation
- Persuading settler Australians
- Reaching migrants
- Performing good citizenship
- Selling Aboriginal assimilation
- Campaign planning
- Campaign materials
- Spreading the message
- Mixed messages
- Continuing criticisms overseas
- Conflicting visions
- 4. Practices
- Assimilating European migrants
- 'Populate or perish'
- Models of assimilation
- Australianisation
- Joining the workforce
- Living in the community
- Taking up citizenship
- The rise and fall of the Good Neighbour Council
- Aboriginal assimilation
- Federal and state: divided responsibilities
- The war years: a taste of freedom
- Extending a helping hand
- Hasluck and a new national leadership
- A national forum
- A 'long, slow job'
- Models of phased assimilation
- Assimilation in the Northern Territory
- Reforming federal legislation
- A national definition of assimilation
- III Assimilation in Nyungar Country
- 5. Good Citizens
- Case study: Western Australia
- Conflicting visions
- The bumpy road to assimilation
- Assimilation's targets: a test case
- Native Welfare Committees
- Good citizens
- 'Not slaves, not citizens'
- Biding time
- Citizenship and drinking rights
- 6. Happy Families
- The sorry road to nowhere
- Promise One: A secure family unit of father, mother and children
- Schooling
- Mainstreaming child welfare
- Promise Two: A home in the suburbs with thebasic comforts of modern life
- Allawah Grove - a transitional housing community
- Forever in training
- Nyungar responses
- Promise Three: Secure employment and a regular income
- Social security
- 7. Living the Dream (with Lauren Marsh)
- Aboriginal people in Perth
- A state of segregation
- The history of the Coolbaroo League
- The Coolbaroo League and the Department of Native Affairs
- The Coolbaroo dances
- Using the media - the Westralian Aborigine
- IV Cracks in the Mirror
- 8. Paradox
- A paradox?
- Modern, primitive, kitsch
- Modernism in Australia
- The cultural middlemen
- Corroboree 1954
- Creating the ballet
- Good intentions, mixed results
- 9. Fragments
- Imagining assimilation
- The 'disappearing migrant'
- Between two worlds
- 'Wanderer between two worlds' - the narrative of Albert (Elea) Namatjira
- The call of the wild - the film Jedda (1955)
- Conflicting desires - the novel The Fringe Dwellers
- The great white hope - Aboriginal child adoption and the press
- Activism: the path to political enlightenment
- A fragmenting discourse
- Media
- Anthropology challenges Aboriginal assimilation
- Challenging migrant assimilation
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Copyright
