Indigenous Australians and Racial Ideology: A Historical Perspective from Audrey Smedley and Brian Smedley

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.463How to use a DOI?

Keywords

racial ideology; Indigenous Australians; segregation; the Black identity

Abstract

The research paper mainly focuses on the description of racial ideology in Australia towards Indigenous peoples from a historical perspective. Additionally, the paper compares Australian racial ideology with the American one, which is based on the key arguments by Audrey Smedley and Brian Smedley. My findings are that both countries constructed subhuman status for the respective racial minorities, but the racialized constructions were based on different rationales. There were also rigid group boundaries between different racial groups in both countries. Furthermore, it is argued that American racial ideology was characterized by fixed, bipolar racial segregation, while Australian one highlighted the need for biological absorption into the White race and cultural and social assimilation into the White society.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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AU  - Jiashu Fang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Indigenous Australians and Racial Ideology: A Historical Perspective from Audrey Smedley and Brian Smedley
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 2560
SN  - 2352-5398
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