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'[This] is a pioneering account of the transnational production of whiteness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A work remarkable both for its international breadth and for its sensitivity to local particularity, it is a model for the new global history.
Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds expertly and imaginatively reconstruct how leading white intellectuals and politicians in Australia, South Africa, the United States, and Great Britain fought demands for racial equality and jointly invented new doctrines of racial superiority to justify the maintenance and, in some cases, the reinvigoration of white privilege in every part of the world that Britain either controlled or in which it had once deposited its settlers.
A powerful and sobering history, incisively and elegantly told.' Gary Gerstle, author of American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
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Table Of Contents
Introduction; Part I. Modern Mobilities:
1. The coming man: Chinese migration to the Goldfields;
Part II. Discursive Frameworks:
2. James Bryce's America and the negro problem;
3. Charles Pearson's prophecy: 'The day will come';
4. Theodore Roosevelt: re-asserting racial vigour;
5. Imperial brotherhood or white: Gandhi in South Africa;
Part III. Transnational Solidarities:
6. White Australia points the way;
7. Defending the Pacific slope;
8. White ties across the ocean: the Pacific Tour of the US Fleet;
9. The Union of South Africa: white men reconcile;
Part IV. Challenge and Consolidation:
10. International conferences: enmity and amity;
11. Japanese alienation and imperial ambition;
12. Racial equality? Paris Peace Conference, 1919;
13. 'Segregation on a Large Scale': immigration restriction, 1920s;
Part V. Towards Universal Human Rights:
14. Rights without distinction.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Australia in Three Books
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 82 no. 2 2023; Meanjin Online 2023;
— Review of Seven Versions of an Australian Badland 2002 single work prose ; Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality 2008 single work non-fiction'Reducing my Australia to just three books makes me feel like someone panning for gold in a fast-moving stream filled with the precious metal. If I stand still long enough and shake the pan hard enough, surely just three exceptional nuggets will be left. It’s fair to say that I have a privileged perspective.' (Introduction)
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Tales of Refugees Sweep PM Book Awards
2009
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[Review Essay] Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , September vol. 40 no. 3 2009; (p. 378-379)
— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality 2008 single work non-fiction -
[Review Essay] Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 3 no. 8 2008;
— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality 2008 single work non-fiction -
[Review Essay] Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: History Australia , December vol. 5 no. 3 2008; (p. 89.1-89.2)
— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality 2008 single work non-fiction
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Global Take on Blackest Days
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 26 March no. 422 2008; (p. 54)
— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality 2008 single work non-fiction -
[Review Essay] Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: History Australia , December vol. 5 no. 3 2008; (p. 89.1-89.2)
— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality 2008 single work non-fiction -
[Review Essay] Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , September vol. 40 no. 3 2009; (p. 378-379)
— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality 2008 single work non-fiction -
[Review Essay] Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 3 no. 8 2008;
— Review of Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality 2008 single work non-fiction -
Australia in Three Books
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 82 no. 2 2023; Meanjin Online 2023;
— Review of Seven Versions of an Australian Badland 2002 single work prose ; Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality 2008 single work non-fiction'Reducing my Australia to just three books makes me feel like someone panning for gold in a fast-moving stream filled with the precious metal. If I stand still long enough and shake the pan hard enough, surely just three exceptional nuggets will be left. It’s fair to say that I have a privileged perspective.' (Introduction)
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Tales of Refugees Sweep PM Book Awards
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 November 2009; (p. 3)
Awards
- 2009 joint winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Non-Fiction
- 2009 winner Ernest Scott Prize
- 2008 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best History Book