Nowhere people
By: Henry Reynolds
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Camberwell, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780143001911
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians; Mixed descent; Social conditions; Racially mixed people; Race relations
Description: This is a history of beliefs about mixed-raced people, half-castes, and the concept of racial purity in Australia and overseas during the 19th and 20th centuries. It also discusses the author's family search for the truth about his father John Reynolds' suspected mixed-blood heritage, an Aboriginal mother his father never knew.
Notes: Includes index.

First published in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I.; title: Ideas from overseas -- -- ch. 1.; title: The ball and chain of hybridism -- -- ch. 2.; title: Fear of miscegenation -- -- ch. 3.; title: Eugenics - a new religion -- -- ch. 4.; title: The most primitive of man -- -- pt. II.; title: Ideas and policies in nineteenth and early twentieth century Australia -- -- ch. 5.; title: Racial ideas at the time of freedom -- -- ch. 6.; title: A dying race -- -- ch. 7.; title: A problem emerges -- -- ch. 8.; title: Outcasts in the outback -- -- ch. 9.; title: 'Very immoral subjects' -- -- ch. 10.; title: Breeding out the colour -- -- ch. 11.; title: 'A colossal menace' -- -- pt. III.; title: Absorption and assimilation in the post-war period -- -- ch. 12.; title: The caste barrier -- -- ch. 13.; title: Removing children.