Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940
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Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940

  1. 516 pages
  2. English
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Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940

About this book

Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940, Revised Edition is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the Great Depression. Gregory D. Smithers historicizes the dissemination and application of scientific and social-scientific ideas within the process of nation building in two countries with large Indigenous populations and shows how intellectual constructs of race and sexuality were mobilized to subdue Aboriginal peoples. Building on the comparative settler-colonial and imperial histories that appeared after the book's original publication, this completely revised edition includes two new chapters. In this singular contribution to the study of transnational and comparative settler colonialism, Smithers expands on recent scholarship to illuminate both the subject of the scientific study of race and sexuality and the national and interrelated histories of the United States and Australia.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. A Note about Terminology
  9. Introduction
  10. Part I
  11. 1. On the Importance of Good Breeding
  12. 2. Debating Race andthe Meaning of Whiteness
  13. 3. Eliminating the “Dubious Hyphen between Savagery and Civilization”
  14. 4. Racial Discourse in the United States and Australia
  15. Part II
  16. 5. Missionaries, Settlers, Cherokees, and African Americans, 1780s–1850s
  17. 6. Missionaries, Settlers, and Australian Aborigines, 1780s–1850s
  18. 7. The Evolution of an American Race, 1860s–1890s
  19. 8. The Evolution of White Australia, 1860–1890
  20. Part III
  21. 9. The “Science” of Human Breeding
  22. 10. “Breeding out the Colour”
  23. Epilogue
  24. Notes
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index
  27. About Gregory D. Smithers