Download or read book Whitening Race written by Aileen Moreton-Robinson and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, Australian scholarship on race has focused on racial oppression and discrimination of non-whites. However, these essays look through the prism of whiteness studies, a theoretical framework of race studies represented in international scholarship since the 1990s. The essays reveal the many ways that whiteness is socially and discursively constructed. This book comes to fruition at a time of political and social conservatism in Australia, where discussions of race and immigration have taken a reactive and conservative turn; and white ownership of the nation and the guise of mutual obligation seeks to deny that race has any relevance in the distribution of resources and life chances. At the same time, discussions about Indigeneity and immigration continue to highlight the importance of race to national identity, belonging and ownership. The essays engage critically with the meanings of whiteness and the location of its social and discursive construction from a variety of dis