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White Blindfolds and Black Armbands: The Uses of Whiteness Theory for Reading Australian Cultural Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Carole Ferrier
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Analyses or descriptions of the history of race relations (and cultural production) in what has been called Australia for about a hundred years, have frequently been informed by two orientations that might be simply categorised as the white blindfold and the black armband positions. In many cases, these two mindsets can be observed in other Western cultures although the interaction between them, and the society around them, gets played out differently in particular places at particular times.

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Queensland Review , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , May 1999 , pp. 42 - 49
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