{"id":11642,"date":"2011-01-21T02:04:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T02:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11642"},"modified":"2011-01-21T02:07:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T02:07:18","slug":"a-shameful-history-nowhere-people-how-international-race-thinking-shaped-australias-identity-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11642","title":{"rendered":"A shameful history: Nowhere People: How International Race Thinking Shaped Australia’s Identity [Book Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"

A shameful history: Nowhere People: How International Race Thinking Shaped Australia’s Identity [Book Review]<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Lancet<\/a>
\nVolume 366, Issue 9495<\/a> (October 2005)
\npage 1428
\nDOI: 10.1016\/S0140-6736(05)67586<\/a><\/p>\n

Caroline de Costa<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Director of the Clinical School
\nJames Cook University School of Medicine, Cairns Campus, North Queensland, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n

Nowhere People: How International Race Thinking Shaped Australia’s Identity<\/a>
\n<\/em>Henry Reynolds<\/a>
\nViking, 2005
\nPp 204. ISBN-0-670-04118-1<\/p>\n

A few years ago my daughter, a poised young woman, found herself in a large rural Australian<\/a> town she did not know well. She sought directions from an older white woman who, glancing briefly at her appearance, gave the required information, but in the slow and careful tones one might use for the mentally impaired. This incident annoyed but did not surprise my daughter; my husband is of Sri Lankan<\/a> origin, and all of our six children, of varying hues and facial features, have at times been taken to be of mixed Aboriginal<\/a> descent in rural Australia, and know something of the experience that can go with this.<\/p>\n

So it was with great personal interest that I opened Henry Reynolds’<\/a> impressive study of the history of people of \u201cmixed-race\u201d in the 19th and 20th centuries in all those countries where colonists confronted people of different colour and physiognomy. As a 21st-century medical practitioner well aware that we are all one species, I was dismayed to find how much medical practitioners and scientists had contributed to repressive legislation and social engineering, both in Australia and elsewhere…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A shameful history: Nowhere People: How International Race Thinking Shaped Australia’s Identity [Book Review] The Lancet Volume 366, Issue 9495 (October 2005) page 1428 DOI: 10.1016\/S0140-6736(05)67586 Caroline de Costa, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Director of the Clinical School James Cook University School of Medicine, Cairns Campus, North Queensland, Australia Nowhere People: How International Race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,459,8,4405,26],"tags":[986,5250,5233,5251],"class_list":["post-11642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-oceania","category-politics","tag-australia","tag-caroline-de-costa","tag-henry-reynolds","tag-the-lancet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}