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Race Matters in Australian Sport

Tatz, Colin

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The first officials and transported convicts ‘Down Under’ disliked, disdained and then disregarded the humanity of the native peoples. Starting with white settlement in 1788, Aborigines were seen essentially as ‘other’ — not just different in quality but as other than human, and treated accordingly for long periods. This was despite edicts from the British Colonial Office to maintain friendly relations, not to disturb Aboriginal lands, to provide them with food, shelter, ‘gratuitous medical...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorTatz, Colin
dc.contributor.editorLong, Jonathan
dc.contributor.editorSpracklen, Karl
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T22:27:20Z
dc.identifier.isbn9780230236158
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/34025
dc.description.abstractThe first officials and transported convicts ‘Down Under’ disliked, disdained and then disregarded the humanity of the native peoples. Starting with white settlement in 1788, Aborigines were seen essentially as ‘other’ — not just different in quality but as other than human, and treated accordingly for long periods. This was despite edicts from the British Colonial Office to maintain friendly relations, not to disturb Aboriginal lands, to provide them with food, shelter, ‘gratuitous medical assistance and relief’ (Dunstan 1966: 315–6). The newcomers, including Christian missionaries, described them variously as ‘odious’, ‘scarcely human’, ‘hideous to look at’, ‘steeped in infamy’, ‘rotten in things sexual’, ‘sins against creation’, ‘wild animals’, ‘loathsome’, ‘vermin’ and a ‘nuisance’ (Tatz 1999: 15). Disparateness was [and is] pervasive and inescapable. It became genocidal in two forms: first, by physical killing, and second, by the forcible transfer of their children into the mainstream society, part of a eugenicist fantasy to facilitate the disappearance of Aboriginality.
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofSport and Challenges to Racism
dc.relation.isversionof1st Edition
dc.titleRace Matters in Australian Sport
dc.typeBook chapter
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
dc.date.issued2011
local.identifier.absfor160803 - Race and Ethnic Relations
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4756716xPUB108
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationTatz, Colin, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage100
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage114
local.identifier.doi10.1057/9780230305892_7
local.identifier.absseo949999 - Law, Politics and Community Services not elsewhere classified
dc.date.updated2020-12-27T07:34:59Z
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationBasingstoke, UK
CollectionsANU Research Publications

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