The Cultivation of Whiteness Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia

Author: Warwick Anderson 

Condition: Very good

Hardcover

389 pages

This history book is an award-winning history of scientific ideas about race and place in Australia from the time of the first European settlement through World War II.

Chronicling the extensive use of biological theories and practices in the construction and “protection” of whiteness, Anderson describes how a displaced “Britishness” (or whiteness) was defined by scientists and doctors in relation to a harsh, strange environment and in opposition to other races.

He also provides the first account of extensive scientific experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on poor whites in tropical Australia and on Aboriginal people in the central deserts.

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