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Journal articles on the topic "Italians Race identity Australia"
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Lee, Christopher, and Claire Kennedy. "Race, technological modernity, and the Italo-Australian condition: Francesco De Pinedo's 1925 flight from Europe to Australia." Modern Italy 25, no. 3 (April 22, 2020): 243–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2020.17.
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Writing about fascism and aviation has stressed the role technology played in Mussolini's ambitions to cultivate fascist ideals in Italy and amongst the Italian diaspora. In this article we examine Francesco De Pinedo's account of the Australian section of his record-breaking 1925 flight from Rome to Tokyo. Our analysis of De Pinedo's reception as a modern Italian in a British Australia, and his response to that reception, suggests that this Italian aviator was relatively unconcerned with promoting Fascist greatness in Australia. De Pinedo was interested in Australian claims to the forms of modernity he had witnessed in the United States and which the Fascists were attempting to incorporate into a new vision of Italian destiny. Flight provided him with a geographical imagination which understood modernity as an international exchange of progressive peoples. His Australian reception revealed a nation anxious about preserving its British identity in a globalising world conducive to a more cosmopolitan model of modernity.
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Battiston, Simone. "Italians in Australia: History, Memory, Identity." Italian American Review 11, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 164–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/italamerrevi.11.2.0164.
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Dellios, Alexandra. "Italians in Australia: History, Memory, Identity." Australian Historical Studies 50, no. 2 (April 3, 2019): 274–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2019.1598320.
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Caiazza, Tommaso. "An "inferior class of white aliens". Italians and the labour movement in nineteenth- and twentieth-century San Francisco." ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA, no. 299 (October 2022): 7–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/icyearbook2021-oa002.
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early twentieth-century San Francisco. It studies the Italians' integration process through the lens of race by focusing on the racist policies adopted by labour unions, which only admitted "whites" and excluded Asian immigrants. Drawing on a wide variety of sources (the labour press, trade unions' records, employment data), I will reveal how Italians, although discriminated against and judged as racially inferior, were nonetheless recognised as "white" and therefore assimilated into the labour movement. I argue that this was made possible by the early development of a common "Caucasian" identity among European groups, modelled against Asian immigration, which reduced the tensions that prevailed elsewhere in the United States, namely between the "old stock" and the "new immigrants", among whom many Italians.
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Enders, Mike. "Review: Race Daze: Australia in Identity Crisis." Media International Australia 92, no. 1 (August 1999): 156–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9909200134.
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Zákravský, Jiří. "Trasa stého ročníku cyklistického závodu Giro d'Italia jako prostor k obnovování italské národní identity (i představení Itálie zahraniční veřejnosti)." Studia sportiva 11, no. 2 (December 20, 2017): 78–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/sts2017-2-8.
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It is possible to say that Giro d’Italia, the road cycling race through Italy, has had a huge popularity mainly, but not exclusively, among the Italians since it was held for the first time in 1909. Some authors even mention, Giro d’Italia did for the formation of the common Italian identity more than the political representatives of the state, which was born in 1861. The fact that the 100th edition of the race took place in 2017 is the proof of its popularity. In the context of this anniversary, its organizers wanted to prepare the wholly Italian race where it would be clearly observed the legacy of the Italian history and of the local cycling, including the presentation of the most famous cyclists from Italy in the history. The aim of this article is to analyse the route of Giro d’Italia 2017 and its presentation as a space that could help to Italians to recognize their Italian identity, even if the local cyclists were not as successful during the 100th edition of the race as the organizers would have wished. Also I would like to mention that in the second decade of the 21st century this cycling race is definitely a popular sporting event all around the world. Not only it has a potential to present itself to the foreign public, but also to promote whole Italy in the most positive way. I think, it is certainly possible to use Giro d’Italia as a tool of the Italian sports diplomacy.
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Baldassar, Loretta. "Migration Monuments in Italy and Australia: Contesting Histories and Transforming Identities." Modern Italy 11, no. 1 (February 2006): 43–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532940500492241.
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Rather than focusing on how Italians share the neighbourhood with other groups, this paper examines some of the intra-group processes (i.e. relations between Italians themselves) that produced various monuments to Italian migration in Australia, Brazil and Italy. Through their distinct styles and formulations, the monuments reflect diverse and often competing elaborations of the migrant experience by different generations at local, national and transnational levels. The recent increase in the construction of such monuments in Australia is linked to the gradual disappearance of ‘visibly’ Italian neighbourhoods. These commemorations effectively transform Italian migrants into Australian pioneers and, thus, resolve moral and cultural ambiguities about belonging and identity by de-emphasizing difference (ethnic diversity) and concealing intergenerational tensions about appropriate ways of expressing Italianness. Similarly, the appearance of monuments in Italy is linked to an emergent ‘diasporic’ consciousness fuelled by Italian emigrants’ growing ability to travel to Italy, but also to the attempt to obscure potentially destabilizing dual identities by emphasizing (one, Italian) ‘homeland’.
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Sammartino, Eleonora. "Remaking national identity: Postcolonial discourses at the intersection of gender and race in Tutto può succedere." Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 8, no. 3 (June 1, 2020): 321–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00025_1.
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In the context of global migrations, ‘new Italians’ have emerged in a group of mainstream TV series, among which Tutto può succedere (‘Anything can happen’) (RAI 1, 2015–18) stands out as the remake of the American Parenthood. This article argues that this process of cultural translation reveals tensions over the negotiation of national identity in Italian society, due to recent migrations and the submerged colonial past. Through the adoption of an intersectional approach, the analysis of the interracial relationship between Feven, an Eritrean-born woman, and Carlo will highlight that the postracial discourses underlying Parenthood are superseded by postcolonial ones in the remake. I demonstrate that the Othering of Feven through sexualization and exoticization exposes the persistence of colonial stereotypes. However, the displacement of race onto gender preoccupations through the prism of postfeminism highlights the attempted ‘normalization’ of the Other, further engaging with the specificities of the Italian context through its association with religion.
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Cruickshank, Joanna. "Race, History, and the Australian Faith Missions." Itinerario 34, no. 3 (December 2010): 39–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115310000677.
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In 1901, the parliament of the new Commonwealth of Australia passed a series of laws designed, in the words of the Prime Minister Edmund Barton, “to make a legislative declaration of our racial identity”. An Act to expel the large Pacific Islander community in North Queensland was followed by a law restricting further immigration to applicants who could pass a literacy test in a European language. In 1902, under the Commonwealth Franchise Act, “all natives of Asia and Africa” as well as Aboriginal people were explicitly denied the right to vote in federal elections. The “White Australia policy”, enshrined in these laws, was almost universally supported by Australian politicians, with only two members of parliament speaking against the restriction of immigration on racial grounds.
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Díaz, Criss Jones. "Latino/a Voices in Australia: Negotiating Bilingual Identity." Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 4, no. 3 (September 2003): 314–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2003.4.3.7.
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In Australia, bilingual identity and home language retention/attrition in bilingual children has had little research attention. This is particularly true in the early years of life where identity construction emerges in the context of early childhood education. This article begins with an overview of the Australian context to focus attention on the limited provision of bilingual support in early childhood settings. By drawing on the work in identity and hybridity negotiation, the ‘voices' of six Latin American parents are discussed to show how identities are negotiated and intersect with language retention within the social fields of ‘race’, ethnicity and gender differences. Three emerging themes are highlighted: the diversity of the parents' experiences in negotiating identity and language retention in family life; the parents' experiences of identity as multiple; and identity as a site of transformation and struggle in child rearing and gendered family practices. These findings demonstrate the significance of parents' perspectives and experiences of identity and language retention in raising their children bilingually, which can inform equitable and innovative practices in the provision of bilingual support in early childhood settings. In conclusion, the author invites early childhood educators to reframe their understandings of identity construction in young bilingual children.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Italians Race identity Australia"
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Macduff, Anne. "Advance Australia Fair? Citizenship Law, Race and National Identity in Contemporary Australia." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/133589.
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Although the ‘White Australia policy’ was officially rejected
over 40 years ago, this thesis argues that it continues to
influence notions of belonging in Australia today. While racial
exclusion from the national community was once achieved through
discretionary mechanisms embedded in migration laws and policy,
today, it is achieved through Australian citizenship laws and
policy.
This thesis critically examines the package of law reforms
introduced in 2007, which subsequently became the Australian
Citizenship Act 2007 (Cth) (‘ACA’). It explores the extent to
which Australian citizenship law enables or limits culturally
diverse expressions of belonging in a liberal, multicultural and
democratic nation. The thesis is underpinned by a critical race
theory approach, which understands the relationship between law
and culture as mutually constitutive. That is, it sees the law as
not only reflecting social norms but participating in their
production and reinforcement. The thesis draws out ways that
Australian citizenship laws mobilise narratives of belonging
which construct a racialised Australian national imaginary.
Using a range of interdisciplinary approaches (including legal
analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis and critical legal
geography), the thesis identifies and analyses narratives about
belonging circulating in three significant fields of public
discourse; legal, political and media discourse. It argues that
these public discourses articulate the meaning of the legal
status of citizenship through racially exclusionary narratives
about Australian values and an ‘Australian way of life’.
The thesis argues that Australian citizenship law is an
increasingly important site used to produce and sustain a
racially exclusionary national imaginary. It analyses how
narratives about Australian citizenship status are increasingly
articulated in opposition to migrants generally, but the Muslim
Other in particular. These racialised narratives of belonging are
conveyed through decisions made under the ACA. Having identified
how the law mobilises narratives which produce and sustain a
White national imaginary, Judith Butler’s theory of
performativity is used to identify some possible citizenship
counter-narratives.
It concludes that, contrary to official statements, Australian
citizenship status does not facilitate an inclusive notion of
national belonging. Instead, it is a mechanism that produces and
sustains a White national imaginary.
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Casella, Antonio. "An olive branch for Sante (a novel) ; and, The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italy and Italians in Australian narrative." Thesis, Casella, Antonio (2006) An olive branch for Sante (a novel) ; and, The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italy and Italians in Australian narrative. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/507/.
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This PhD presentation comprises two pieces of work:
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The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative (Research thesis)
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An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel)
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In the Introduction of my research titled: Diaspora: A Theoretical Review, I look at the evolution of diasporic Studies and how the great movements of people that have occurred in the past one hundred and fifty years have altered our perception of what is undoubtedly a global phenomenon.
In Chapter One, which I have titled: In Search of an Italian Diaspora in Australia, I consider the kinds of socio-cultural nuclei that have evolved among the Italian population of Australia, out of the mass migration which occurred largely in the post war years. I discuss Italian migration as a whole, the historical and political conditions which brought about mass migration and the subsequent dispersion of Italian nationals, their regrouping into various clusters and how these fit into the patchwork that is the contemporary Australian society. Finally I review the conditions in the host country which facilitated or hindered particular socio-cultural formations and how these may differ from those occurring in other countries.
Chapter Two deals with, The Narrative of Non-Italian Writers. The chapter looks at the images and myths of Italy perpetrated in the literature written by English-speaking authors over the centuries. I begin with the legacy left by British writers such as E.M. Forster, then move on to Australian writers of non-Italian background, such as Judah Waten, Nino Culotta (John O' Grady) and Helen Garner. In Chapter Three: Italo-Australian Writers, I focus on two writers: Venero Armanno and Melina Marchetta, both born in Australia of Italian parents. This section ties in with the earlier discourse on the continuity of the Italian Diaspora in Australia, into the second and subsequent generations.
In Chapter Four, titled: Literature of Nostalgia: The Long Journey, I will reflect upon my own journey as a writer, beginning with my earlier work, including the short stories and the plays, and concluding with a close look at the present novel, which is a companion piece to the research.
The novel complements the research in that it deals with the eternal issues of migration: displacement, change and identity. The protagonists are two young people: Ira-Jane and Sante. The first is not a migrant, but she is touched by migration, insofar as an old Italian couple play grandparents to her, in the early years of her life. When they return to Sicily the child is left with her neglectful and unstable mother. At age twenty-four Ira-Jane goes to Sicily on an assignment, and there she tries to get in touch with her 'grandparents'. She meets up with eighteen-year-old Sante who turns out to be her half brother. The novel's structure juxtaposes two countries, two cultures, two way of looking at the world. It sets up a series of contrasts: the old society and the new, past and present, tradition and innovation, stability and change, repression and freedom. The end of the novel proposes a symbolic bridging between two countries, which are similar in some ways, very different in others. It offers not a solution but a different approach to the eternal dilemma of people living in a diaspora, inhabiting an indefinite space between two countries and for whom home will always be somewhere else.
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Casella, Antonio. "An olive branch for Sante (a novel) ; and, The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italy and Italians in Australian narrative." Casella, Antonio (2006) An olive branch for Sante (a novel) ; and, The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italy and Italians in Australian narrative. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/507/.
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This PhD presentation comprises two pieces of work:
I
The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative (Research thesis)
II
An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel)
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In the Introduction of my research titled: Diaspora: A Theoretical Review, I look at the evolution of diasporic Studies and how the great movements of people that have occurred in the past one hundred and fifty years have altered our perception of what is undoubtedly a global phenomenon.
In Chapter One, which I have titled: In Search of an Italian Diaspora in Australia, I consider the kinds of socio-cultural nuclei that have evolved among the Italian population of Australia, out of the mass migration which occurred largely in the post war years. I discuss Italian migration as a whole, the historical and political conditions which brought about mass migration and the subsequent dispersion of Italian nationals, their regrouping into various clusters and how these fit into the patchwork that is the contemporary Australian society. Finally I review the conditions in the host country which facilitated or hindered particular socio-cultural formations and how these may differ from those occurring in other countries.
Chapter Two deals with, The Narrative of Non-Italian Writers. The chapter looks at the images and myths of Italy perpetrated in the literature written by English-speaking authors over the centuries. I begin with the legacy left by British writers such as E.M. Forster, then move on to Australian writers of non-Italian background, such as Judah Waten, Nino Culotta (John O' Grady) and Helen Garner. In Chapter Three: Italo-Australian Writers, I focus on two writers: Venero Armanno and Melina Marchetta, both born in Australia of Italian parents. This section ties in with the earlier discourse on the continuity of the Italian Diaspora in Australia, into the second and subsequent generations.
In Chapter Four, titled: Literature of Nostalgia: The Long Journey, I will reflect upon my own journey as a writer, beginning with my earlier work, including the short stories and the plays, and concluding with a close look at the present novel, which is a companion piece to the research.
The novel complements the research in that it deals with the eternal issues of migration: displacement, change and identity. The protagonists are two young people: Ira-Jane and Sante. The first is not a migrant, but she is touched by migration, insofar as an old Italian couple play grandparents to her, in the early years of her life. When they return to Sicily the child is left with her neglectful and unstable mother. At age twenty-four Ira-Jane goes to Sicily on an assignment, and there she tries to get in touch with her 'grandparents'. She meets up with eighteen-year-old Sante who turns out to be her half brother. The novel's structure juxtaposes two countries, two cultures, two way of looking at the world. It sets up a series of contrasts: the old society and the new, past and present, tradition and innovation, stability and change, repression and freedom. The end of the novel proposes a symbolic bridging between two countries, which are similar in some ways, very different in others. It offers not a solution but a different approach to the eternal dilemma of people living in a diaspora, inhabiting an indefinite space between two countries and for whom home will always be somewhere else.
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Iuliano, Susanna. "Constructing Italian ethnicity : a comparative study of two Italian language newspapers in Australia and Canada, 1947-1957." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22595.
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This thesis is broadly concerned with how an ethnic group defines itself through the medium of the press. It contends that newspapers do more than simply 'reflect' the experience of ethnic groups, they in fact help to 'construct' ethnic identity.The specific focus of this study is the Italian language press and its attempts to shape the ideals of italianita of Italian migrants in Canada and Australia in the immediate post-war period. This work is based on two newspapers, Montreal's Il Cittadino Canadese and La Fiamma published in Sydney, New South Wales. All available editions from the decade 1947 to 1957 are examined in order to determine which symbols and causes were used to promote Italian ethnic cohesiveness.
In the course of this thesis, it is argued that La Fiamma used religion as the basis of its ideal of italianita, while the Italo-Canadian paper Il Cittadino Canadese made the issue of Italian political representation in Canadian government structures the basis of its quest to unite Italian migrants into an ethnic 'community'. Some possible reasons for the difference in focus between the two newspapers are presented in the conclusion. Also, suggestions are made for future comparative research between Italian ethnic communities in Canada and Australia which may help to better explain the differences laid bare in this paper.
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Lewis, Raylene C. "The construction of identity through race and ethnicity : coloured South African women in Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2007. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/267.
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The formation of ethnic and racial identity is important psychologically. Mainstream psychological theory and research on identity has been criticised for its failure to adequately address the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups in society. The purpose of my research was to centre the experience of one such group, through an exploration of how coloured South African women living in Western Australia construct their identities focusing on the dimensions of race and ethnicity. There is a dearth of research in Australia with migrants of mixed racial backgrounds. This work was seen as an important contribution to expanding the diversity of research on processes of racial and ethnic identity construction. My interest was in examining not only the labels by which these women elected to identify, but also the socio-political, historical and cultural resources they drew on in constructing their identities in the context of emigration from a historically oppressive and disempowering context, to one with different socio-historical and political structures. Drawing on a feminist framework and with the aim of giving voice to the women and examining their processes of meaning-making, I utilised a qualitative research design. I conducted unstructured conversational interviews with 22 expatriate coloured South African women residing in Western Australia. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was the technique adopted to analyse the interviews and explore how the women made meaning of their subjective experiences. In relation to colouredness, there was diversity in the ways the women negotiated, managed and positioned their identities. The narratives showed that they drew on a range of historical, political and social resources in making meaning of and situating coloured in the process of constructing their identities. What the women knew and understood of our country of origin's history of slavery and colonialism, along with their awareness and life experiences under apartheid, were significant influences on their construction of ancestry. In turn, these understandings of our history and ancestral origins were important in how they made sense of culture as it related to our community of origin, with the narratives on culture illustrating multiplicity, ambivalence and contradictions. The narratives also showed that the women drew on multiple categories for identification aside from coloured, including black, mixed race, South African, South African born-Australian, woman and person. There are complex historical, sociopolitical and contextual dynamics around the negotiation and construction of these multiple identities. While the women have increased freedoms for identity construction in the Australian context, there are also external constraints on these freedoms, which impact on the identity choices they have available to them. These limitations on the women's freedoms for self-determination need to be viewed within the wider context of social relations of power and privilege, and notions of race as they operate in the Australian context. Despite these constraints however, the women evidence agency and resilience in managing and re-negotiating their multiple identities, and forging a sense of belongingness. I position my findings within the broader context of literature and frameworks on identity. I argue for the relevance and importance of a historically, political1y and contextually grounded conceptualisation of identity construction. To conclude, I draw implications from the findings for psychological theory and research on identity construction and outline my hopes for future research.
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Stein, Darren M. "Psychological sense of community in Jewish adolescents of Perth, Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2000. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1369.
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This paper explores Psychological Sense of Community (PSC) in the Jewish adolescent population of Perth. The main aim was to investigate the differences between student attending the private Jewish School (Carmel) or another school within the metropolitan area. Participants were recruited from Carmel School, W A Maccabi (Jewish sport club) and by using a snowball sampling technique. The total sample included 167 students (60 males and 107 females) in years 10, II and 12. Participants' PSC was assessed by the modified Sense of Community Index (SCI). Results showed significantly higher PSC in Carmel students (ᵽ< .05), males (ᵽ< .01) and Somewhat observant individuals (ᵽ< .0 I). No relationship was found between PSC and whether one lived in the central Jewish suburbs. The relationship between PSC and length of time lived in the community was not a positive, linear one as expected. Results that were contrary to those in the literature may be effected by the community's traditional gender stereotypes and high numbers of migrants. Limitations of the study and implications for future research are discussed.
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David, Delphine. "'White', indigenous and Australian : constructions of mixed identities in today's Australia." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC179/document.
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Dans les années 1990, l’Australie met en place une politique de réconciliation s’étalant sur dix ans et visant à développer une meilleure relation entre Australiens aborigènes et non-aborigènes. Cette politique est fondée sur la reconnaissance de l’existence continue de tensions entre les deux communautés, et ce malgré une plus grande reconnaissance de la place des Aborigènes en Australie depuis les années 1970. La relation complexe entre Australiens aborigènes et non-aborigènes – en particulier "blancs" et dont les origines sont anglo-celtes – est le résultat du processus de colonisation, des politiques ultérieures conçues pour contrôler la population aborigène, et de la domination des Aborigènes par l’Australie "blanche" au cours de l’histoire. Du fait des politiques discriminatoires, de nombreuses familles aborigènes décidèrent de cacher leurs origines et de se faire passer pour blanches. De nombreux enfants métisses à la peau claire furent enlevés à leurs familles et perdirent leurs liens avec leurs familles aborigènes. Aujourd’hui, un nombre grandissant d’Australiens choisissent de revendiquer leur identité Aborigène et de reprendre possession d’un héritage dont ils ont été privés. Mais si avoir des origines aborigènes n’est plus source de honte, en revanche, le chemin à parcourir pour retrouver son identité aborigène peut être difficile. Cette étude analyse les parcours identitaires de onze Australiens élevés dans une culture "blanche" anglo-celte et qui ont des origines aborigènes. L’analyse de leurs perceptions de l’identité aborigène révèle la prédominance des discours "blancs" sur les Aborigènes en Australie aujourd’hui, mais aussi la présence de discours essentialistes restreignant la définition de l’identité aborigène, et maintenant utilisés par la communauté aborigène afin de contrôler cette définition. L’analyse de la relation d’opposition entre Aborigènes et Australiens "blancs" dans l’Australie contemporaine révèle la difficulté à revendiquer à la fois des origines "blanches" et "noires", ainsi que des identités multiplesIn the 1990s, Australia set up a ten-year policy of reconciliation aiming at developing a better relationship between Indigenous people and the wider Australian community. This policy was based on the recognition of the enduring dichotomy between both communities despite an increasing acknowledgement of the place of Indigenous people in Australia since the 1970s. The complex relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians – and especially ‘white’ Anglo-Celtic Australians – is the result of the process of colonisation, of the subsequent policies designed to control Indigenous people, and of the historical domination of ‘white’ Australia over Indigenous people. As a result of discriminatory policies, many Indigenous families decided to hide their heritage and ‘passed’ into ‘white’ society. Many mixed-race and fair-skinned children were taken from their families and lost their connection with their Indigenous relatives. Today, an increasing number of Australians choose to identify as Indigenous and to reclaim a heritage they were deprived of. But although having Indigenous heritage is no longer regarded as shameful, the road back to Indigeneity can be a difficult one. This study is the analysis of the identity journeys of eleven Australians who were raised in a ‘white’, Anglo-Celtic Australian culture and who have Indigenous heritage. Their perceptions of Indigeneity are analysed to reveal the dominance of ‘white’ discourses about Indigeneity in today’s Australia, but also the presence of restricting essentialist discourses now used by the Indigenous community to keep control over the definition of Indigenous identity. The analysis of the oppositional relationship between Indigenous and ‘white’ Australians in contemporary Australia reveals the difficulty of embracing both ‘white’ and ‘black’ heritages and of claiming multiple identities
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Standfield, Rachel, and n/a. "Warriors and wanderers : making race in the Tasman world, 1769-1840." University of Otago. Department of History, 2009. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20090824.145513.
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"Warriors and Wanderers: Making Race in the Tasman World, 1769-1840" is an exploration of the development of racial thought in Australia and New Zealand from the period of first contact between British and the respective indigenous peoples to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. It analyses four groups of primary documents: the journals and published manuscripts of James Cook's Pacific voyages; An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales by David Collins published in 1798; documents written by and about Samuel Marsden, colonial chaplain in New South Wales and the father of the first mission to New Zealand; and the Reports from the British House of Commons Select Committee into the Treatment of Aborigines in the British Empire from 1835 to 1837. This study employs a transnational methodology and explores the early imperial history of the two countries as a Tasman world of imperial activity. It argues that ideas of human difference and racial thought had important material effects for the indigenous peoples of the region, and were critical to the design of colonial projects and ongoing relationships with both Maori and Aboriginal people, influencing the countries; and their national historiographies, right up to the present day.
Part 1 examines the journals of James Cook's three Pacific voyages, and the ideas about Maori and Aboriginal people which were developed out them. The journals and published books of Cook's Pacific voyages depicted Maori as a warrior race living in hierarchical communities, people who were physically akin to Europeans and keen to interact with the voyagers, and who were understood to change their landscape as well as to defend their land, people who, I argue, were depicted as sovereign owners of their land. In Australia encounter was completely different, characterised by Aboriginal people's strategic use of withdrawal and observation, and British descriptions can be characterised as an ethnology of absence, with skin colour dominating documentation of Aboriginal people in the Endeavour voyage journals. Aboriginal withdrawal from encounter with the British signified to Banks that Aboriginal people had no defensive capability. Assumptions of low population numbers and that Aboriginal people did not change their landscape exacerbated this idea, and culminated in the concept that Aboriginal people were not sovereign owners of their country.
Part 2 examines debates informing the decision to colonise the east coast of Australia through the evidence of Joseph Banks and James Matra to the British Government Committee on Transportation. The idea that Aboriginal people would not resist settlement was a feature not only of this expert evidence but dominated representation of the Sydney Eora community in David Collins's An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, such that Aboriginal attacks on the settlement were not said to be resistance. A report of the kidnapping of two Muriwhenua Maori men by Norfolk Island colonial authorities was also included in Collins Account, relaying to a British audience a Maori view of their own communities while also opening up further British knowledge of the resources New Zealand offered the empire.
The connection with Maori communities facilitated by British kidnapping and subsequent visits by Maori chiefs to New South Wales encouraged the New South Wales colonial chaplain Samuel Marsden to lobby for a New Zealand mission, which was established in 1814, as discussed in Part 3. Marsden was a tireless advocate for Maori civilisation and religious instruction, while he argued that Aboriginal people could not be converted to Christianity. Part 3 explores Marsden's colonial career in the Tasman world, arguing that his divergent actions in the two communities shaped racial thought about the two communities of the two countries. It explores the crucial role of the chaplain's connection to the Australian colony, especially through his significant holdings of land and his relationships with individual Aboriginal children who he raised in his home, to his depiction of Aboriginal people and his assessment of their capacity as human beings.
Evidence from missionary experience in New Zealand was central to the divergent depictions of Tasman world indigenous people in the Buxton Committee Reports produced in 1836 and 1837, which are analysed in Part 4. The Buxton Committee placed their conclusions about Maori and Aboriginal people within the context of British imperial activity around the globe. While the Buxton Committee stressed that all peoples were owners of their land, in the Tasman world evidence suggested that Aboriginal people did not use land in a way that would confer practical ownership rights. And while the Buxton Committee believed that Australia's race relations were a failure of British benevolent imperialism, they did not feel that colonial expansion could, or should be, halted. Evidence from New Zealand stressed that Maori independence was threatened by those seen to be "inappropriate" British imperial agents who came via Australia, reinforcing a discourse of separation between Australia and New Zealand that Marsden had first initiated. While the Buxton Committee had not advocated the negotiation of treaties, the idea that Maori sovereignty was too fragile to be sustained justified the British decision to negotiate a treaty with Maori just three years after the Select Committee delivered its final Report.
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Moran, Anthony F. "Imagining the Australian nation settler- nationalism and Aboriginality /." Click here for electronic access to document, 1999. http://dtl.unimelb.edu.au/R/U1L2H28HB18MC24L4CL743PII8DUPUQSDYN9NGAGLBXL8YA8BU-00451?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000013.
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Hamston, Julie A. "A dialogue for 'new times': Primary students' struggle with discourses of 'Australia' and 'Asia' in studies of Asia curriculum." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36689/1/36689_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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This study investigated the language exchanged in classroom dialogue between primary students about issues of 'Australianness' and 'Asianness' within the field of curriculum referred to as Studies of Asia, a curriculum project designed to problematize both Australia's colonial past and its recent history as a nation-state that must address its dynamic role in the Asian region. Its aim was to examine how this language embodied discourses, or ways of using language that represent particular values and viewpoints about 'being Australian' and 'being Asian'.
A review of the current and relevant literature showed that key texts define Studies of Asia as a postcolonial enterprise that aims to raise students' awareness, through dialogue, of how discourses have created and maintained powerful divisions between people. Aligning with other similar definitions of postcolonial education, Studies of Asia so conceived, is informed by theories of discourse and power and pedagogical approaches that centralize students' critique and transformation of discourses. However, these theories present a relatively static and absolute perspective on discourse and power, at some odds with discourse-change. Moreover, they do not foreground the role of the individual in struggling to make meaning from the many and varied social discourses available to them. Accordingly, this study was designed from a perspective on discourse that accounts for the pedagogic role of ongoing dialogue, acknowledges an individual student's struggle for meaning and emphasizes the importance of selfreflection. The study's theoretical framing drew upon Bakhtin's (1981, 1986a,b) conceptualization of language as dialogue. This view of language describes the mutual relationship between the individual and society, between the language she speaks and larger social discourses, and between ongoing dialogue and discourse-change. This concept of language as dialogue provided the theoretical and conceptual framework for the methodology of the study which included the design of a curriculum project and smaller, intimate contexts that centralized dialogue and self-reflection; of research contexts that allowed for a portrait of students' ongoing struggle with discourses to emerge; and of a multi-dimensional framework for the micro-linguistic analysis of the discourses cued in the participants' language.
A critical, qualitative case study of the language generated by three particular students was created from the application of dialogue as both a pedagogic and research strategy. In creating interrelated contexts that allowed different discourses of 'Australia' and 'Asia' to 'meet' within and beyond the Studies of Asia curriculum project, it was possible to establish a profile of the ensuing struggle for each case study participant. A method of critical discourse analysis - created from a synthesis of Bakhtin's theory of dialogic relations and the dimensions, tools and techniques which form the basis of Fairclough's (1992a,b, 1995) model of Textually Oriented Discourse Analysis - allowed for a systematic linguistic analysis of the discourses that were both cued in each participant's spoken language and embodied in her body language and gestures. Some sense of each participant's internal and public struggle, and her ongoing engagement with issues of 'Australianness' and 'Asianness,' was thus revealed.
The main findings of the study relate to the complexity of the students' dialogic interactions, the contrastive discourses of 'Australia' and 'Asia' revealed in their spoken and embodied language and the various ways that students resisted and appropriated discourses of multiculturalism and racial tolerance that underpinned the Studies of Asia curriculum project. The findings suggest that there was not a wholesale transformation of discourses as proposed in the literature, but rather a more incomplete and 'messy' process of struggle. The findings also point to different degrees of personal investment in the issues raised in the curriculum project and suggest that it is not possible to separate the discursive content of an individual student's language from the manner in which she expresses this content. Consequently, the individualization of such struggle needs to be taken into account in considering the desirability and efficacy of discourse-change.
The study's significance is demonstrated by its capacity to show the micro-linguistic elements of ongoing discursive struggle and its presentation of a textured portrait of the complexities and tensions inherent within dialogic interactions. The model of dialectic predagogy consequent on these findings has substantial implications for policy, curriculum design and classroom practice. Dialogue, as central to an individual's 'becoming' as a human being, is demonstrated as an ongoing and unfinished process that has implications not only for for Studies of Asia but more broadly across the primary school and other contexts.
Books on the topic "Italians Race identity Australia"
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Stratton, Jon. Race daze: Australia in identity crisis. Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press, 1998.
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John, Docker, and Fischer Gerhard 1945-, eds. Race, colour, and identity in Australia and New Zealand. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000.
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Giuliani, Gaia. Bianco e nero: Storia dell'identità razziale degli italiani. Firenze: Le Monnier università, 2013.
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1967-, Guglielmo Jennifer, and Salerno Salvatore 1949-, eds. Are Italians white?: How race is made in America. New York: Routledge, 2003.
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White on arrival: Italians, race, color, and power in Chicago, 1890-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Alice, Pung, ed. Growing up asian in Australia. Melbourne: Black Inc., 2008.
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La costruzione interazionale di identità: Repertori linguistici e pratiche discorsive degli italiani in Australia. Milano: F. Angeli, 2007.
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White nation: Fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society. Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press, 1998.
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Mengon, Giovanni. Italiani, tramonto di una razza? Milano: Ancora, 2001.
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Trapped in the gap: Doing good in indigenous Australia. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015.
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Nesdale, Drew. "Social Identity Development and Children's Ethnic Attitudes in Australia." In Handbook of Race, Racism, and the Developing Child, 313–38. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118269930.ch13.
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Stratton, Jon. "Whatever Happened to Multiculturalism?: Here Come the Habibs! Race, Identity and Representation." In Multiculturalism, Whiteness and Otherness in Australia, 203–29. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50079-5_7.
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"Discourses of National Identity in Australia." In Gender, Race and National Identity, 33–49. Routledge, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203891247-10.
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"Ethnicity, structure and globalization: an argument about Association football in Australia, 1958 –2010." In Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity, 107–24. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203717981-13.
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"Multiculturalism in crisis: the new politics of race and national identity in Australia." In On Not Speaking Chinese, 105–21. Routledge, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203996492-12.
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McGuire, Valerie. "Everyday Fascism in the Aegean." In Italy's Sea, 195–246. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348004.003.0005.
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Italy’s rule in the Southeast Aegean is nearly synonymous with the locution, una faccia, una razza (one face, one race), and has shaped cultural representations as well as oral narratives about the occupation. Previously, studies have linked this trope to the myth of Italians as ‘good people’. Without discounting the possibility that the local community may have had positive relations and experienced benefits to Italian rule, this chapter assesses to how the trope may encapsulate a lived experience of the deeply nationalist ideology that underpinned the Italian empire. Oral and archival sources make visible the ways that the local population was brought into Italian nation-building projects. Carrying forward the book’s larger discussion of citizenship and belonging, the chapter focuses in particular on the Italian state’s language policy in the Aegean as one of the key instruments adopted in order to spread a wider sense of belonging to the Italian empire. It considers how these forms of national belonging have lived on in present-day ideas about European identity.