{"id":25136,"date":"2012-09-01T02:37:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T02:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25136"},"modified":"2016-12-12T23:19:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T23:19:37","slug":"indifferent-inclusion-aboriginal-people-and-the-australian-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25136","title":{"rendered":"Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Aboriginal Studies Press<\/a>
\nSeptember 2011
\n288 pages
\n230 x 152mm; b\/w Illustrations
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780855757793<\/p>\n

Russell McGregor<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History
\nJames Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n

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McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of the twentieth century. Combining the perspectives of political, social and cultural history in a coherent narrative, he provides a cogent analysis of how the relationship changed, and the impediments to change.<\/p>\n

McGregor\u2019s focus is on the quest for Aboriginal<\/a> inclusion in the Australia nation; a task which dominated the Aboriginal agenda at the time. McGregor challenges existing scholarship and assumptions, particularly around assimilation. In doing so he provides an understanding of why assimilation once held the approval of many reformers, including Indigenous activists.<\/p>\n

He reveals that the inclusion of Aboriginal people in the Australian nation was not a function of political lobbying and parliamentary decision making. Rather, it depended at least as much on Aboriginal people\u2019s public profile, and the way their demonstrated abilities partially wore down the apathy and indifference of settler Australians.<\/p>\n

Russell McGregor is Associate Professor of History at James Cook University in Townsville. He has published extensively on the history of settler Australian attitudes toward Aboriginal people, including the award-winning book Imagined Destinies. His other research interests are in Australian nationalism and environmental history.<\/p>\n

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