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This week we shall examine the relationship between racism and colonialism and look at the construction of colonial rule in Australia, paying attention to how it is dually built upon the dispossession of the Aboriginal inhabitants of the land and on the experience of immigrant loss. We shall pay attention to how ideas of race and nation are closely intertwined and how race is used to legitimise colonial appropriation. We shall pay particular attention to the notion of terra nullius and examine debates about the teaching of the so-called ‘black armband’ approach to teaching about Australia’s colonial past.
This week we shall examine the relationship between racism and colonialism and look at the construction of colonial rule in Australia, paying attention to how it is dually built upon the dispossession of the Aboriginal inhabitants of the land and on the experience of immigrant loss. We shall pay attention to how ideas of race and nation are closely intertwined and how race is used to legitimise colonial appropriation. We shall pay particular attention to the notion of terra nullius and examine debates about the teaching of the so-called ‘black armband’ approach to teaching about Australia’s colonial past.
