Australia’s Doomed-Race Protective Myth : Impact and Aftermath (Hardcover)

Introduction?1 The “doomed race”: history and the vagaries of the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, the vagaries, and the politics of the memory factor in history?2 Protective myths at play, the Stolen Generations, and silencing the past?3 Terra Nullius,massacres,First Nations societies, andsettler nationalism’s hegemony and political might?4 Assimilation and the politics of protective myths?5 School education, protective myths and a “science” for the subjugating, segregation and later assimilating First Nations societies?6 General conclusions. Bibliography: works consulted