White Imagination and the Construction of the Australian Frontier

Abstract: A 5 page discussion of the factors which have influenced white perception of the Australian frontier. The author contends that this perception has been fueled not only by fear and racism but also by an intense greed to capitalize upon the lands and the peoples of Australia. Not only were the aborigines distinctly different racially and culturally, they were visibly resistant to the white construct of civilization. Today, however, these same aborigines are beginning to grasp at a collective voice, a voice which can be used to direct the destruction which they have witnessed in the lands which they hold so dear. Bibliography lists sources.

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Subcatagory: Anthropology

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