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Race, Colour and Identity in Australia and New Zealand (Part 3 "Asians in Australia/ Australians in Asia")
by John Docker, Gerhard Fischer. 288 pgs.

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Race, Colour and Identity in Australia and New Zealand

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Preface

Contributors

Part 1: Introduction

1: Adventures of Identity

2: An Uneasy Conversation: the Multicultural and the Indigenous

Part 2: Aboriginal Identity

3: Reconciling Our Mothers' Lives

4: Tropical Hundreds: Monoculturalism and Colonisation

5: Warlpiri Graffiti

6: Mis-Taken Identity: Mudrooroo and Gordon Matthews

Part 3: Asians in Australia/ Australians in Asia

7: Asians in Australia: a Contradiction in Terms?

8: Community Formation and Taiwanese Immigrant Identity

9: Feminist Perspective on 'Australia in Asia'

10: Looking for Father-Right: the Asian Values Debate and Australian-Asian Relations

Part 4: Biculturalism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand

11: The Ambivalence of Borders: the Bicultural and the Multicultural

12: Chronicles of Evasion: Negotiating Pakeha New Zealand Identity

Exploring Disallowed Territory: Introducing the Multicultural Subject into New Zealand Literature

14: Colonialism Continued: Producing the Self for Export

Part 5: Whiteness

15: Migrancy, Whiteness and the Settler Self in Contemporary Australia

16: Duggaibah, or 'Place of Whiteness': Australian Feminists and Race

17: Construction of Whiteness in the Australian Media

18: 'talkin' Up Whiteness': a Black and White Dialogue

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Families and Cultural Diversity in Australia
by Robyn W. Hartley. 278 pgs.

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Guide to the family values and practices of major ethnic groups in Australia.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

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1: Families, Values and Change: Setting the Scene

2: Australian Families: Values and Behaviour

Conclusion

3: Aboriginal Families in Australia

Conclusion

4: Chinese Family Values in Australia

Conclusion

5: Filipino Families in Australia

Conclusion

6: Greek-Australian Families Georgina Tsolidis

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7: The Italian-Australian Family: Transformations and Continuities

7: The Italian-Australian Family: Transformations and Continuities

8: Latin American Families in Australia

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9: Lebanese-Australian Families Trevor Batrouney

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10: Vietnamese-Australian Families

Conclusion

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The Packaging of Australia: Politics & Culture Wars (Chap. 4 "Cultural Diversity and a Deregulated Australia")
by Gregory Melleuish. 144 pgs.

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This analysis of recent attempts to 'package' the nation of Australia argues for pluralism rather than dogma when discussing identity and nationhood. Provides an overview of the creation of modern Australia and discusses topics such as economic rationalism, cultural diversity and republicanism. Includes references and an index The author is a senior lecturer in history and politics at the University of Wollongong. His other publications include 'Cultural Liberalism in Australia'.

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Part I: The Creation Of Modern Australia

Chapter 2: A Contradictory Democratic Culture

Part II: An Age Of Uncertainty

Chapter 4: Cultural Diversity And A Deregulated Australia

Chapter 5: Politics: Pressure Groups, Interest Movements & Political Parties

Part III: Living In An Age Of Packages

Chapter 7: Republicanism And Multi- Culturalism

Chapter 8: Resisting Packages: The New Populism

Part IV: Conclusion

Endnotes

Index
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Mainstreaming Australia, in Journal of Australian Studies
by Leigh Dale. 11 pgs.

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The Two 'One Nations' and the Question of Australia, in Journal of Australian Studies
by Ralph Humphries. 4 pgs.

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Not Just Another Multicultural Story, in Journal of Australian Studies
by Jon Stratton. 25 pgs.

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Tacking into the Wind: Immigration and Multicultural Policy in the 1990s, in Journal of Australian Studies
by James Jupp. 11 pgs.

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Being Australian: Narratives of National Identity (Chap. 5 "White Australia Meets Multiculturalism: Ethnicity and Nation")
by Catriona Elder. 390 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Imagining Nations

2: The Working Man Is Everywhere: Class and National Identity

3: The Invisible Woman: Gender and Nation

4: Populate or Perish: Sexuality and Nation

5: White Australia Meets Multiculturalism: Ethnicity and Nation

6: The Myth of Terra Nullius: Indigeneity and Nation

7: The Cultural Nation

8: The Heart of the Country: Place, Space and Land

9: The Land of the Long Weekend

10: Taking to the Streets: (Non) National Uses of Public Spaces

11: Backyards and Barracking: The Everyday in Australia

12: Australia on Display

Conclusion

Glossary

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Borderwork in Multicultural Australia
by Bob Hodge, John O'Carroll. 252 pgs.

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1: Trials and Triumphs of Multicultural Australia

2: Borderwork

3: Tolerance Paradoxes

4: Anglo-Celts in Multicultural Australia

5: Racism and Schismogenesis

6: Aboriginal Australia and Multiculture

7: Imagining Islam

8: Austral/Asia

9: Rethinking the Pacific

10: Imagining Multicultural Australia

Appendix: Tools for Analysing Multiculture and Borderwork

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International Handbook on Race and Race Relations ("Australia" begins on p. 1)
by Jay A. Sigler. 486 pgs.

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Tables Preface Introduction Australia by Henry Albinski Brazil by Anai Dzidzienyo Canada by Doug Daniels Fiji by Ralph Premdas France by Alan B. Anderson India by Raj S. Gandhi Japan by Yung-Hwan Jo Malaysia by C.E.R. Abraham Netherlands by Joed H. Elich New Zealand by Andrew D. Trlin and Paul Spoonley Singapore by John Clammer South Africa by Paul Rich Sudan by Ann Lesch Switzerland by Carol Schmid Thailand by Suchitra Punyaratabandhu-Bhakdi and Juree Vichit-Vadakdan Trinadad by Stephen D. Glazier Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by Samuel P. Oliner United Kingdom by Barrie Axford United States by Jay A. Sigler West Germany by Lutz Holzner Bibliographical Note Appendix: Racial/Ethnic Divisions Index About the Contributors

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INTRODUCTION

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AUSTRALIA

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BRAZIL

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CANADA

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FIJI Ralph Premdas

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FRANCE

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INDIA

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JAPAN

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MALAYSIA

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NETHERLANDS

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NEW ZEALAND

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SINGAPORE

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SOUTH AFRICA

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SUDAN

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SWITZERLAND

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THAILAND Suchitra Punyaratabandhu-Bhakdi and Juree Vichit-Vadakdan

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TRINIDAD

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UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

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UNITED KINGDOM

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UNITED STATES

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WEST GERMANY

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

APPENDIX: RACIAL/ETHNIC DIVISIONS

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The Emergence of Religious Plurality in Australia: A Multicultural Society, in Sociology of Religion
by Gary D. Bouma. 18 pgs.

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The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas (Part V "New Focus on Australia")
by Elizabeth Sinn. 508 pgs.

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Preface

Contributors

1: Introduction: Migration and New National Identities

Part I: Overview

3: Groundlessness and Utopia: The Chinese Diaspora and Territory

4: (the Xiao Yucan Principle And Its Historical Destiny)

Part II: Identity and Ethnicity

6: Representations of 'the Chinese' And 'Ethnicity' in British Racial Discourse

7: Emerging British Chinese Identities: Issues and Problems

8: Integration or Segregation: The Dutch and South African Chinese Compared

Part III: The Diaspora in Europe

10 Living Among Three Walls? The Peranakan Chinese in The Netherlands

11: The Chinese And Chinese Districts in Paris

Part IV: The Asia Pacific Front

13: Political Participation Amongst Chinese Canadians: The Road to the 1993 Election

14: (the Chinese and Their Community in Kobe)

15: (the Indigenization of Overseas Chinese in Japan as Seen from the Indigenization Of Their Education)

16: (the Changing Pattern of the Vietnamese Chinese Economy, 1975-1993)

Part V: New Focus on Australia

18: The Changing Characteristics Of Chinese Migrants to Australia During the 1980s and Early 1990s

19: Gold Mountain No More: Impressions of Australian Society Among Recent Asian Immigrants

Part VI: Chinese Overseas In Comparative Perspectives

21: Settlement Experiences of Recent Chinese Immigrants in Australia: A Comparison of Settlers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China

Part VII: Ethnicity, Religion And Communal Development And Qiaoxiang: Chinese Overseas And the Home Village

23: (the Migration of Minorities In Modern China)

24: (report of Fieldwork on the Returned Overseas Chinese of South Korea in Rizhao City, Shandong Province)

25: (emigration of Hakka from China After The Second World War)

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Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts: Theory and Criticism (Chap. 14 "Postcolonialism/Multiculturalism--Australia 1993: An Interview with Sneja Gunew" )
by Gita Rajan, Radhika Mohanram. 234 pgs.

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At the heart of coloniality and postcoloniality is the idea of empire. This book examines various theories of empire, and how they create networks of discourse in contemporary postcolonial settings. In exploring the idea of empire, the contributors consider such constructions as nation and modernity, identity politics, the status and role of exiles, and border intellectuals. Postcolonial texts considered include literature and films.

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Recent Titles In Contributions to the Study of World Literature

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Introduction: Locating Postcoloniality

Works Cited

1: Rereading Fanon, Rewriting Caribbean History

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2: The Dialectics of Négritude: Or, The (post) colonial Subject in Contemporary African-American Literature

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3: The Colonial Voice in the Motherland

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4: Minor Pleasures

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5: Women's Rights Versus Feminism? Postcolonial Perspectives

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6: Plantation Cafés: Jazz, Postcolonial Theory, and Modernism

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7: Postcoloniality and the Politics of Identity in the Diaspora: Figuring Home," Locating Histories"

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8: Postcolonial Spaces and Deterritorialized (homo)sexuality: The Films of Hanif Kureishi

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9: Is My Body Proper? Postcoloniality in the Classroom

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10: The Media Scene and Postcolonial Theories: An Interview with Prajna Paramita Parasher

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11: Retrospective Hallucination": Postcolonial Video as Cultural Critique"

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12: History, Folklore, and Common Sense: Sembène's Films and Discourses of Postcoloniality

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13: Biculturalism, Postcolonialism, and Identity Politics in New Zealand: An Interview With Anna Yeatman and Kaye Turner

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14: Postcolonialism/Multiculturalism--Australia 1993: An Interview With Sneja Gunew

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Contemporary Nationalism: Civic, Ethnocultural, and Multicultural Politics (Appendix "Australia")
by David Brown. 198 pgs.

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This book examines the problematic politics of contemporary nationalism, and the worldwide resurgence of ethno-nationalist conflict. It analyses the core theories of nationalism, building upon these theories and offering a clear analytical framework through which to approach the subject. This outstanding volume features detailed case- studies discussing nationalist contention in areas including Spain, Singapore, Ghana and Australia as well as looking at Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Rwanda disputes.

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Introduction: Unravelling Nationalism

1: The Conceptual Languages of Nationalism

2: New Nations for Old?

3: Good-Civic and Bad-Ethnocultural

4: Constructing Nationalism

5: The Case of Singapore

6: The Case of Ghana

7: Civic, Ethnocultural and Multicultural Nationalism

8: How Can the State Respond to Nationalist Contention?

9: Nationalist Ideologies in Conflict

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Notes

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Migration, Education and Change (Chap. 10 "Australia")
by Sigrid Luchtenberg. 213 pgs.

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The diverse contributions in this book discuss both the classical and the more recent forms of migration. Illustrating the developments in various European countries and Australia as a 'classical immigration state', they tackle these different forms of migration and investigate their divergent educational implications regarding identity, citizenship and language education. This book will be of essential interest for students and researchers interested in the current discourse on multicultural education.

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Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgements

1: Introduction

References

2: Transnationalism and Migration

3: (New Forms Of) Migration

4: Collective Solidarity and the Construction of Social Identities in School

5: The Education of Migrants and Minorities in Britain

6: Discovering the Ethnicized School

7: New Migration in Europe

8: European Perspectives on Immigrant Minority Languages at Home and at School

9: Sweden as a Multilingual and Multicultural Nation

10: Australia

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