Legacies of white Australia
Subtitle: race, culture, and nation
By: edited by Laksiri Jayasuriya, David Walker, and Jan Gothard ; foreword by Wang Gungwu.
Contributors: Jayasuriya, Laksiri.; Walker, David, 1945-; Gothard, Jan.
Series: Contemporary issues; Contemporary issues (Nedlands, W.A.)
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Crawley, W.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Minorities -- Australia; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- Australia -- History; Multiculturalism -- Australia; Australia -- Race relations; Australia -- Emigration and immigration; Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Description: The White Australia policy continues to haunt Australia. Here, leading Australian scholars provide an informed debate on the essential issues of race, identity and nation that will determine our attitudes to immigration, multiculturalism and Australian-Asian engagement in the twenty-first century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-256) and index.
"Outcome of a national symposium ... held at the University of Western Australia in 2001"--P.x.